At first, this was part of an investigation into alleged illegal financing by the former Libyan regime of his election campaign in 2007.
Investigating judges, who have sweeping powers under French law, have been tapping Mr Sarkozy's phone for months, initially as part of an investigation into alleged illegal financing by the former Libyan regime of his 2007 election campaign.
The number of voter shrank in the following elections as voting progressively turned into a sign of allegiance to the regime due the generalization of election fraud and the authoritarian turn of the regime (Brand, 2010).
Belated promises from the regime of free, multiparty elections appear to have done nothing to defuse the crisis, which has claimed 1,600 lives since March.
Uganda has a new rival for the West's affections in east Africa, since the Kenyan opposition crushed the crooked regime of Daniel arap Moi at an election in December.
Mr Sarkozy, as well as the other figures concerned, have denied all allegations.The investigating judges launched this probe as the result of a separate investigation into alleged illegal financing by the former Libyan regime of Mr Sarkozy's successful 2007 election campaign.
Alfonso tried various methods to bring about a return to a constitutional regime without the risk of elections.
Nowadays, the United States has great influence when it comes to selecting who rules between the collapse of an authoritarian regime and the holding of elections.
It was a show of solidarity with judges, who were holding their own sit-ins and protests to contest being pressured to sign off on rigged elections by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
In the last assembly election, during the Mubarak regime, of the 839 candidates for his National Democratic Party, only 10 were Copts.
He headed the constitutional hearings in 2012 that scrapped the "political isolation" law, which prohibited members of the old regime from contesting elections.
