One term for Sarkozy enough: Bruni

Carla Bruni says a single term as French First Lady is "enough".

London: Nearly two years after her marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni has said a single term as French First Lady is "enough" and she wouldn`t urge her husband to seek re-election in 2012. "As his wife, one mandate is enough. If he wants to stand, that`s his business. We never talk about it because I don`t think I should get involved in that kind of thing. It`s all very complicated, and it`s his job.

"It would be like him sticking his nose in and suggesting I write a song in a major or minor key, when that`s my business. My husband can do anything as he puts his all into everything he does and that`s how you succeed in life. "He gives everything he has in his work and his love life, and that is amazing for a woman and amazing for a nation. So, really I`m just content that the French have him as president at all. "He is a complete and well-rounded person, and that`s obvious the second he walks into a room. I think if he was a carpenter, he`d be the best carpenter. Giving everything is how one succeeds in professional and private life," Bruni told French TV channel `TF1`. The 41-year-old former supermodel-turned singer, who married Sarkozy in February 2008 after a three-month whirlwind romance, also spoke of how happy they were as a couple. "Our life has changed. I have calmed our lives. Our private life is very gentle, very calm and very tranquil. I`m better with him than alone, and that`s something I could never have imagined saying when I was young," a British newspaper quoted her as telling the TV channel. Responding to criticism that a recent poll found 51 percent of the French felt she was "remote" from the people, Bruni said, "I feel close to the French. perhaps they don`t feel close because of all the photographs that look so staged. They don`t see me as I really am." PTI