It is a new disillusion for Ségolène Royal.
The finalist in the 2007 presidential election has just been severely beaten in the senatorial elections for French people living abroad.
In all, it only collected 11 votes out of 533 possible in this election where the deputies from abroad, the advisers of the French abroad and the consular delegates voted.
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The former minister, who had requested the support of the Socialist Party, had not been successful.
She still decided to come forward and had the support of several left-wing personalities.
"
I support her in this fight (...), I know her fighting spirit, I know that she will serve you
," Christiane Taubira declared, for example.
"
Support for Ségolène Royal, first woman to reach the second round of the presidential election (...) A word that counts
", had meanwhile tweeted the mayor of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse.
"
Useless humiliation
"
Ségolène Royal had qualified with the
Figaro
the decision of the PS "
of division and useless humiliation and completely out of step with the aspirations for unity to solve the heavy problems of the French abroad
".
After the announcement of the results, where Yan Chantrel, who had just received the nomination of the PS, was elected, the former minister confessed to the
Parisian that
she "
hoped for more
".
Other elected senators include the ecologist Mélanie Vogel, Olivier Cadic (UDI), Jean-Pierre Bansard (Solidarity Alliance of French Abroad), Samantha Cazebonne (LREM) and Christophe-André Frassa (The Republicans).
