It is not uncommon to see him in intense cogitations with his small team of elected officials in a fashionable restaurant in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. When she does not invite them home, as she did this Sunday, to share a galette des rois and political talk. So Ségolène Royal set off again in the countryside, as in the heyday of her political life.
Heading for the presidential election? The current Poles ambassador - until the executive officially puts an end to her duties in a few days - barely conceals her ambition. "I'm watching what's going on. My political voice weighs, I assume this responsibility. France deserves better than what it is experiencing today, "she confided to us recently, convinced that Marine Le Pen can win in 2022 if she confronts Emmanuel Macron again in the second round.
"We must get out of this deadly duel," argues the "royalist" Luc Carvounas, former supporter of Manuel Valls who now supports the former Minister of Ecology. And the same to call the PS not to procrastinate: "When we are at 6%, we stop pulling the plug and we take the best! "
The 2007 remake? As a political animal, Royal reproduces the method that had succeeded in 2006, when she had picked up the “elephants” of the PS, including François Hollande, then his companion, to establish himself as the candidate of his camp.
"It will be essential, they will not be able to avoid it"
This time, it is Bernard Cazeneuve that she is trying to style at the post. After returning in September with the "Maurassan oath" from Hérault, the former Prime Minister was very quiet during the social shock of pensions. A discretion that has not escaped Royal. "A political fault," even judges one of his supporters.
To warm up, the former Minister of the Environment embarked on a tour of support for candidates for municipal elections. After Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) last weekend, it will be this Friday in Ris-Orangis (Essonne), then in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) with Senator Samia Ghali Thursday January 23, probably before Montpellier. “She is a candidate and she is right !, launches a member of the majority, who however does not appreciate it. There is no one on the left, even Cazeneuve does not occupy the space, he has left the place. It will be essential, they will not be able to avoid it. "
Informed observers also noted that she had recently warped her speech, borrowing readily from the Melenchonist vocabulary on "the global financial elite". As if it were seeking to preempt a left-wing electorate fallow. Until then, Royal was rather considered as the ugly duckling right-hander of the PS ... "We have refocused," confesses one of the relatives.
It responds point by point to the survey aimed at it
This Wednesday, the national financial prosecutor however announced the opening of a preliminary investigation on the use which it made of the envelope which was allocated to him within the framework of its mission of ambassador - voluntary - of the poles. Justice seeks to know if these means could have been used for personal promotion.
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To which she responded point by point on Facebook, deeming this investigation "perfectly legitimate in a democracy where transparency on the use of public funds is required". Immediately adding: “The necessary rules of rigor have been perfectly respected. "
Not enough to curb his ambitions, quite the contrary. Among its faithful, we repeat that we "seek to silence her" at the moment when she raises her voice against Emmanuel Macron. Because this judicial twist comes the day after revelations about his next dismissal of his duties as ambassador by the government. Enough to feed the worst conspiracy theses. "There is no black cabinet here!" "Strongly retort the supporters of the Head of State.
Within the macronie, one looks with a touch of sarcasm the ambitions of Royal. A ministerial adviser laughs: "She plugged in herself on the oxygen machine!" "
