French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy has sailed into a political storm by holidaying on a luxury yacht straight after his election triumph on Sunday.
The opposition Socialist Party and media across the political spectrum say the cruise is too ostentatious.
A defiant Mr Sarkozy said he would not apologise for the break and it should not be cause for controversy.
The attacks came as rioters torched cars in a third night of protests against Mr Sarkozy's victory.
Monastic retreat?
Mr Sarkozy is on a three-day cruise in Malta with his wife Cecilia and son Louis, 10, to celebrate his victory and relax before officially taking over from Jacques Chirac on 16 May.
Former Socialist Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou called the holiday "ostentatious" and "scandalous".
"All this money when he pretends to be the... president of all French [people]," she said on French TV station iTele.
The British-registered 60m (200-foot) yacht Paloma belongs to a friend of Mr Sarkozy, French billionaire tycoon Vincent Bollore, and costs up to 200,000 euros ($270,000) to rent for a week.
Here is the modern left in a nut shell. They simply want to control every aspect of human existence, including how much money we are allowed to spend and even what sort of vacation we should be allowed to take.
Sadly typical.
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