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Ségolène Royal
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Is this the new mistress of France’s fortunes?
Debt and discontent are tearing France apart. Will Ségolène Royal be the one to unite the country as its first female president?
By Matthew Campbel. The Sunday Times MagazineWith her soft voice, Ségolène Royal does not sound like a politician. She does not look much like one either. These are big pluses on the French election-campaign trail. Stylishly dressed in an apple-green designer suit with knee-length leather boots laced up over tangerine tights, she was enjoying a lunch of oysters and braised duck while musing over her chances of becoming France’s first female president. "That would be something," she said, laughing. "It would be a planetary event."
Later, in her office in the town of Poitiers, in west-central France, Royal warmed to her theme, referring to the German election of Chancellor Angela Merkel. "In France, we are saying, ‘If Germany has done it, we can do it too.’"
The soft voice belies a core of steel. In opinion polls, this elegant mother of four has consistently scored higher than any other politician and, were she the candidate in an election today, could be expected to win. The emergence of Ségo, as they often refer to the 52-year-old Royal, has rattled male politicians, highlighting a surprisingly chauvinistic streak in a country so progressive in other domains. "They’re afraid," says Royal, who dismisses as "dinosaurs" the men in her own Socialist political family who have poured scorn on her presidential hopes. "They’re afraid I am going to take their place.".../..
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