This is the stage which precedes its replacement in the Council of Ministers. A very last summons before his possible dismissal, in short. According to our information, Ségolène Royal found a few days ago in her mailbox a very threatening missive emanating from her supervisory authority, the Quai d'Orsay: a letter prior to her suspension from her position as ambassador, volunteer, in charge of the poles. She had already received - nobody knew - letters of order. But never anything so serious.
"It is a political decision, not an administrative decision," slips a source within the executive, under the cover of the strictest anonymity. "There is a real subject of duty of reserve and it did not do the job in its mission. In the name of what would it be above the law? Annoys another interlocutor within the macronie.
Embarrassing, Ségolène Royal? "They want me to resign, but I will not resign. I am performing my duties. Let them take responsibility! »Replies forcefully the former candidate for the Elysée Palace, contacted by our newspaper. "Chiche! If they believe their threat will silence her, they are wrong. If they want to dismiss a stateswoman, free to speak, let them do so. She will continue to say what she thinks about the state of the country and the solutions it can provide, ”grabs PS MP Luc Carvounas, one of her fervent supporters.
"They don't assume, they have the chips!"
Why then did the government not communicate on this famous letter, leaving the Minister of Ecology Élisabeth Borne, who was Royal's chief of staff at the same post, to go to the front to call for restraint? "Because she is only waiting for that to pose as a victim," decrypts a government source.
"They don't assume, they have the chips!" Mocks a royalist. "Macron is very upset. He named her thinking he would buy it, and now she's getting it in the bacon. He must quickly get it out, with the risk of establishing him as an adversary for 2022, "analyzes a deputy of the majority, who would like to hear him about possible breaches of his mission as ambassador of the poles.
In the majority, it was understood that the "Zapatera", one of its old nicknames, was ready to resume service for the presidential election. Between the astonishing silence of Bernard Cazeneuve and the promise made by Anne Hidalgo in Le Parisien not to apply to the Elysée if she wins Paris, the void is abysmal on the left, outside of the green. And no more question for her to be overtaken, as when she had stretched her hand in vain to the Green Yannick Jadot for the Europeans in May. No question either of going under the caudine forks of the PS. "A party that is at 6% can not be a launching pad," asserts a relative.
She gathers her bodyguard
On the way to 2022? Royal barely hides it. In small groups, she repeats that a new duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen would result in the victory of the head of the RN. "As a stateswoman who has experienced the exercise of power, she wants to see the country succeed", carvounas sidestepped when asked about the next presidential election.
Recently, she has gathered her close guard again. Like this Sunday, where she invited her family to share - it cannot be invented - a galette des rois. "It's a sign that she's gone," smiles an old friend.
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To warm up, the former Minister of Ecology embarked on a tour of France to support candidates for municipal elections, delightfully finding the wanderings of the markets and the crowds. After Toulouse on Saturday, it will be this Friday in Ris-Orangis (Essonne), then in Marseille next Thursday with Samia Ghali, probably before Montpellier. A brave Royalist already promises: "We are going to show that the old world still has a bright future ahead of it!" "
