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Ex-President Sarkozy Convicted for Campaign Spending Violations
前总统萨科齐因竞选开支违规被判有罪
A French court on Thursday sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president, to a year of house arrest for illegally financing his failed 2012 re-election campaign by wildly exceeding France’s strict electoral spending limits. Mr. Sarkozy, 66, was president from 2007 to 2012. Though he is no longer active in politics and continues to be dogged by multiple legal entanglements, he is still an influential voice on the French right. Shortly after the verdict, his lawyer announced that Mr. Sarkozy would appeal the conviction, which puts the sentence on hold and leaves him free.
周四，法国一家法院判处前总统尼古拉•萨科齐一年的软禁，罪名是大幅超出法国严格的选举开支限制，为其2012年失败的连任竞选提供非法资金。现年66岁的萨科齐曾于2007年至2012年担任法国总统。尽管他不再活跃于政坛，并且仍然受到多重法律纠纷的困扰，但他仍然是法国右翼的一个有影响力的声音。判决后不久，萨科齐的律师宣布，萨科齐将对判决提出上诉，因此判决被搁置，他将获得自由。
“President Sarkozy never asked to be treated better than anyone else, but there is no reason he should be treated any worse,” the lawyer, Thierry Herzog, told reporters outside the courtroom in Paris. It was the second of several legal cases pending for Mr. Sarkozy to end with a conviction in recent months, and the first time he was convicted for actions that he undertook while in office, further threatening to tarnish his legacy.
这位名叫蒂埃里·赫尔佐格的律师在巴黎法庭外告诉记者：“萨科齐总统从来没有要求得到比任何人更好的待遇，但他也没有理由受到更差的待遇。”这是近几个月来萨科齐面临的第二起以定罪告终的未决案件，也是他首次因在任期间的行为而被定罪，这可能会进一步玷污他的政治遗产。
In March, he became the first former president in France’s recent history to be sentenced to actual jail time after he was convicted on charges of corruption and influence peddling for trying to illegally obtain information from a judge on a legal case against him. Mr. Sarkozy has appealed that conviction as well, and he is unlikely to spend time behind bars in the near future. Appeals could take years to go through the courts, and even if Thursday’s sentence is upheld, the court that convicted Mr. Sarkozy said he would be able to serve it at home with an electronic monitoring bracelet.
今年3月，他成为法国近代史上首位被判处实际监禁的前总统，此前他被控腐败和以权谋私，试图非法从法官那里获取针对他的法律案件的信息。萨科齐也对这一判决提出上诉，他在不久的将来不太可能在监狱里待上一段时间。上诉可能需要数年时间才能通过法院审理，即使周四的判决维持不变，判定萨科齐有罪的法庭表示，他可以带着电子监控手镯在家服刑。
