Revealed: Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni’s extravagant ?660-a-day flower bill

July 21st, 2009

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni have been splashing out more than ?660 a day on flowers.
The super-rich couple also used taxpayers’ money to settle ?3,000 worth of fines for late payment of electricity and gas bills.
Their extravagant ?241,000 annual florists’ bill – despite the recession- was exposed in presidential accounts for 2008.
The president’s third wife, former supermodel turned singer Miss Bruni, is often seen arranging big vases of flowers inside the Elysee Palace.
Mr Sarkozy was ordered to pay back ?12,000 in personal bills which he had put on public accounts.
A Palace spokesman said the floral bill was now being cut and welcomed the release of the figures as a move towards “transparent government”.
source: mirror.co.uk