Jean Sarkozy, President Nicolas Sarkozy's son is pictured on October 23, 2009 at the Hauts-de-Seine general council in Nanterre, west of Paris, after his election as a new member of the EPAD agency overseeing development in La Defense district. Sarkozy junior, an elected councillor in the rich Paris suburb of Neuilly, at the centre of a bitter row over alleged nepotism, abandoned on October 22 his bid for a job managing France's wealthiest business district. By Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty.