While she had been able to cherish the hope of standing for a new presidential election, Ségolène Royal suffered this Sunday a failure to ... senatorial French from abroad. It is even a total rout for the former minister and deputy. The latter received only 11 votes out of 533 (only deputies from abroad, advisers to French nationals living abroad and consular delegates were called to the polls in this ballot) and its list finished 8th out of the 10 who were in competition, according to the almost final results we have obtained. Largely insufficient to acquire one of the six seats in play.
"I hoped for more, it would be dishonest to say the opposite", recognizes Ségolène Royal with the Parisian, without hiding a big disappointment.
"I think she will take a serious drop," said shortly before the results Roland Lescure, deputy for the French in North America and who, as such, voted this Sunday morning.
"2022, are you going?"
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Rejected by the leadership of the Socialist Party who had criticized him for the presence on his list of a former close to François Fillon, and who had bet on the candidate Yan Chantrel, Ségolène Royal sees it as the main reason for his defeat.
"The PS played the division by filing a candidacy against me and succeeds in making me beat, whereas one could have displayed a unit", thunders the former ambassador of the poles, without finding it strange to thus reverse the roles between the official candidacy and the dissenting one.
Among the newly elected senators are Yan Chantrel, the ecologist Mélanie Vogel, Christophe-André Frassa (Les Républicains), Samantha Cazebonne (LREM), Olivier Cadic (UDI) and the businessman Jean-Pierre Bansard (Alliance Solidaire of French Abroad).
Environmentalists have an extra senator tonight 😘 pic.twitter.com/haeUzlUGql
- Mélanie Vogel 💪🏽🏳️🌈🌻🇪🇺 (@Melanie_Vogel_) September 26, 2021
As for Ségolène Royal, 68 years old and still committed "to the left", does she intend to give up political life following this failure?
On the contrary, she announces that she wants to transform her think tank "Désirs de France" into a real "political party, based around three themes: protection of the social model, democratic crisis and environmental emergency".
“I'm still here (laughs)… a little bit,” she confided recently.
And the former minister to burst out laughing this Sunday, in response to the question from her taxi driver during our telephone interview at the end of the afternoon: "2022, are you going ?!"
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