Nicolas Sarkozy attends a news conference after the close of polls in France's second round Departmental elections of local councillors at their party's headquarters in Paris March 29, 2015. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates ruled on Thursday that authorities had acted legally in tapping ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's phone as part of an investigation into allegations of influence peddling, in a potential blow to his hopes to run for president in 2017.
Sarkozy allies had been confident the court would declare the taps inadmissible and clear the way for him to seek the conservatives' ticket for the 2017 ballot without that judicial cloud hanging over him.
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