Editing Union for a Popular Movement (section)

==== Bygmalion scandal====
Several spending scandals appeared in 2014. In early 2014, the Bygmalion scandal ([[:fr:Bygmalion#Affaire UMP-Bygmalion|fr]]) pushed the party's leader [[Jean-François Copé]] to resign. In early July, [[Sarkozy]] got held in custody due to possible spying and active corruption of the judiciary system. On 8 July 2014, the UMP was discovered to have a hidden debt of €79.1&nbsp;million for the year 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/07/08/que-deviendrait-la-dette-de-l-ump-si-le-parti-disparaissait_4453316_4355770.html|title=Que deviendrait la dette de l'UMP si le parti disparaissait ?|website=Le Monde.fr|date=8 July 2014}}</ref> On 20 May 2021, the criminal trial began for Sarkozy and 13 other defendants who were said to have been involved in the Bygmalion scandal.<ref name=trialtwo>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57186670|title=Nicolas Sarkozy: Ex-president goes on trial for illegal campaign funding|publisher=BBC News|date=May 20, 2021|accessdate=May 21, 2021}}</ref> The scandal allegations that Sarkozy diverting tens of millions of euros which was intended to be spent on his failed 2012 re-election campaign and then hiring a PR firm to cover it up.<ref name=trialtwo /> The illicit campaign finance money which was not reported as being spent on Sarkozy's re-election campaign was instead used to overspend on lavish campaign rallies and events.<ref name=trialtwo /> On 30 September 2021, Sarkozy and his co-defendants would be convicted for violating France's campaign finance spending limit law.<ref name=sarkozysecondconviction>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58729505|title=Sarkozy: Ex-French president gets jail sentence over campaign funding|publisher=BBC News|date=30 September 2021|accessdate=16 November 2021}}</ref> For this conviction, Sarkozy was given a 1-year prison sentence, though he was also given the option to instead serve this sentence at home with an electronic bracelet.<ref name=sarkozysecondconviction />