“As long as Ségolène Royal was ambassador of the poles, it was for us a pinned grenade. Now that she has been ousted, she explodes us in the face, "says a close friend of Emmanuel Macron. The proof, three days with her eviction formalized in the Council of Ministers, it is as a "free woman" that the former candidate for the 2007 presidential election now intends to play politics. Understand: trace its furrow in the perspective of 2022, and plant banners against Macron and his majority.
Invited this Sunday of the program "BFM Politics", in partnership with our newspaper, Royal has obviously not been deprived of it. A real festival! “I see the suffering of more and more of our fellow citizens in our country […]. Today, French society is severely brutalized by the government in place, ”insists the former Minister of the Environment, very severe on the record of the executive. "It is not I who become severe, but it is the power which is seriously slipping," she says, taking as an example the current tensions around pension reform, the violence which has marked certain movements of street.
"They shouldn't have attacked me like that"
Ségolène Royal accepts the remarks made two days earlier when she denounced the majority's “authoritarianism”: “My conviction is that we can reform quietly. The Great National Debate was just a one-man show. Otherwise, people would not be on the streets yet, ”Royal continues, even going so far as to assert that“ the class struggle has never been as current as it is today ”.
"Resigned" Friday by the executive of her duties as ambassador of the poles, here she is invigorated and Macron warned. "They shouldn't have taken it out on me like that." We have touched my honor, nothing will stop me, "she slips with accents of passionaria for a few days, in private. In particular through its new political association "Desire de France, future of the planet", which it intends to structure with a view to offering an alternative to the Macron-Le Pen match in 2022.
Is there still any doubt about his candidacy? " We'll see. I said that if it were necessary to carry this female voice, this ecological and democratic voice, and which defends at all costs the French social model, I will be ready when the time comes, ”she ignites, without excluding discussions with representatives of other political forces, in particular Yannick Jadot's ecologists.
"She has been there for thirty years"
At this point, within the majority, we prefer to take these repeated attacks lightly. No comments from the Elysée side. “The problem is the media noise. There will always be something negative for us, ”regrets a ministerial adviser. “Ségolène Royal, it is especially a problem for the left, in particular Bernard Cazeneuve (Editor's note: whose name comes up regularly for 2022) . It stifles them, "bounces Secretary of State for Youth Gabriel Attal.
“Inevitably, she is a political woman. But when she attacks us to say that we no longer live in a democracy, she is not a stateswoman ”, more severely returns Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Territorial Communities. He was previously Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition: "When I see the files she left when she was Minister of the Environment, like the Fessenheim management, that should inspire her more humility. She has been there for thirty years. She is an accountant for the state of the country… ”