Ségolène Royal fires red balls.
Guest of BFMTV this Monday, April 11, the former socialist candidate castigated the "
egos
" of Yannick Jadot, Fabien Roussel and Anne Hidalgo, who respectively collected 4.6%, 2.3% and 1.7% of the vote. in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday evening.
“
They would have withdrawn, we would have Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the second round
”, affirms the former Minister of the Environment.
The rebellious candidate only needed a little over 500,000 votes to pass Marine Le Pen and thus reach the second round.
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"
What is dramatic is that these candidates are below 5%, while we felt the electorate's expectation of a union of the left
," lamented Ségolène Royal.
She denounces the “
lack of insight
” of the three candidates.
The former socialist deputy accuses them of having wanted to save their political apparatuses.
“
They didn't have a sense of duty.
When you are a candidate for a presidential election for a political current, you are at the service of its history.
It's not the story that serves your little ego
.
" Dwarf "
The former president of the Poitou-Charentes region had already attacked the three left-wing candidates after the announcement of the results of the first round on Sunday evening.
“
Jadot, Roussel, Hidalgo, below 5% call for a barrage at MLP?
They could do it by union by withdrawing.
Shame on them, on their ego.
"Dwarfs" would have said François Mitterrand
", she published on Twitter in the evening.
"
They take on an extremely heavy responsibility
," she insisted on TF1.
On February 16, Ségolène Royal announced her support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the BFMTV antenna, turning her back on the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo.
“
If the left wants to be in the second round, the leaders must meet and say what the useful vote is.
It's the Mélenchon vote,
” she said.
