Ségolène Royal against everyone. The former wife of the President of the Republic François Hollande, attacked via Twitter from the current partner of the Head of State, Valerie Trierweiler, after a day of (bitter) silence, he finally decided to have his say on a story that is poisoning the French political climate, with just enough gossip to make it even more demeaning.
The journalist and première dame at the Elysée had explicitly expressed solidarity and encouragement to Olivier Falorni, dissident socialist opponent of Royal in the ballot for the legislative elections in the constituency of La Rochelle, where the former 2007 presidential candidate presented herself, supported by her husband and the Socialist party, for a seat in the Assemblée Nationale (the French Parliament).
“I am mortified,” Royal said today in an interview with Libération, adding: "Faced with the violence of the blow suffered, I preferred not to react outright, because I am a political figure and I have to maintain a balanced attitude".
The Royal then had it for everyone, from the press, accused of giving too much prominence to the story (“I ask for the respect due to a mother who has children who listen to what is happening”, she said referring to the children she had from her relationship with Hollande), to the opposition of the UMP, which according to her engineered everything by supporting Falorni in Rochelle and fueling the case (“They are great male chauvinists”, she thundered), and finally to the same Falorni, that the polls now give even an advantage but that according to Ségolène "he is a traitor, it is unacceptable that a candidate from the left should win with the votes of the right and the extreme right".
In fact, according to an Ipsos poll, it would appear that the "anti-Ségolène" candidate, supported by the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, is hoarding himself for the ballot 83% of the votes of Sarkozy's party, the UMP, and even Marine Le Pen's 55% of the votes of the National Front.
