Showing posts with label Ségolène Royal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ségolène Royal. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Ségolène Royal: I Voted Emmanuel Macron in Both Rounds of French Election - BBC Newsnight
Monday, December 05, 2016
Sunday, October 14, 2012
It started off like a French farce. Will it end up like a Greek tragedy? France’s “First Girlfriend”, Valérie Trierweiler, may well cause the political downfall of the man she fought so bitterly to catch – and still can’t get a marriage commitment from.
Five months after he was elected, François Hollande’s popularity figures are the lowest of any French president since Charles de Gaulle signed the 1962 treaty acknowledging the independence of Algeria after a bloody anti-colonialist war.
The general consensus is that Ms Trierweiler is one of the chief reasons why the Fifth Republic’s seventh president is seen as henpecked, inefficient and vacillating – in short, not in charge.
“The five women who make his life hell” was last week’s headline on news magazine L’Express. First on the list were the president’s partners, past and present: Ségolène Royal, the former presidential contender and mother of Hollande’s four children; and Valérie, the Paris-Match journalist who won Hollande from Royal.
The other three were former Socialist leader Martine Aubry, Green leader Cécile Duflot, and Angela Merkel: they would never have been qualified by gender if Hollande’s chaotic private life wasn’t the first subject of gossip and conjecture these days.
In this toxic environment came the revelations in La Frondeuse (“The Troublemaker”), a new biography published last Thursday by journalists Alix Bouilhaguet and Christophe Jakubyszyn, that while she was busy prying Hollande away from the home he’d been making with Royal for more than two decades, the (still-married) Trierweiler was three-timing – or should it be four-timing? – him with Patrick Devedjian, a former Sarkozyste cabinet minister. » | Anne-Elisabeth Moutet | Sunday, October 14, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
"Ce que je reproche au tweet, c’est d’avoir fait basculer la vie privée dans la vie publique". Dans un article du Point à paraître jeudi, Thomas Hollande semble avoir la dent dure contre Valérie Trierweiler et son tweet de soutien à Olivier Falorni, opposant de Ségolène Royal dans la bataille des législatives à La Rochelle.
Alors que la polémique est retombée depuis, le fils de François Hollande et de Ségolène Royal se dit aujourd'hui peiné par ce geste "hallucinant" de la Première dame et attristé pour son père. "Ça me fait de la peine pour mon père. Ça détruit l’image normale qu’il avait construite", estime-t-il, selon les termes rapportés par Le Point. Il accuse le magazine d'avoir déformé ses propos » | Par Hélène Favier | jeudi 12 juillet 2012
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WELT ONLINE: Die Krise der Patchwork-Familie im Élysée-Palast: Die Flitterwochen des französischen Präsidenten sind vorbei: Familiendramen und Job-Krisen trüben den Nationalfeiertag für François Hollande. Jetzt redet Sohn Thomas nicht mehr mit der First Lady. » | Von Sascha Lehnartz | Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thomas Hollande, a 27-year-old lawyer, criticised the way Ms Trierweiler, 48, has conducted herself since becoming first lady in May.
Ms Trierweiler caused outrage last month by expressing her support via Twitter for a politician standing against Segolene Royal, 58, in parliamentary elections.
Ms Royal is the former partner of Mr Hollande and the mother of their children – Thomas, Clemence, 25, Julien, 22, and Flora, 20.
Since the infamous tweet, Ms Royal lost the election, seen her career all but ended, and been widely ridiculed across France.
This led to President Hollande, 57, speaking to each of his children individually about the saga, but they all told him that they never wanted to see Ms Trierweiler again.
In comments to Le Point magazine, Thomas Hollande said his father had been "devastated" by the tweet and it had "cause him a lot of pain". » | Peter Allen, Paris | Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: One tweet from François Hollande's partner threatens to bring the new president's 'normal' image crashing downOnce it seemed that Nicolas Sarkozy's public love-life sagas were hard to top: his marriage breakdown with Cécilia, her role as his political adviser, their ill-fated bling-encrusted presidential victory celebrations at the posh Fouquet's restaurant and on a billionaire's yacht. Then his reluctant, quickie divorce and speedy re-marriage to the supermodel Carla Bruni barely four months after meeting her. All this churned the stomachs of French voters and sent his popularity plunging to a nadir from which it never recovered.
But the Socialist François Hollande is now at the centre of a rival plotline. He had promised to be the anti-Sarkozy, a sober "Mr Normal" who was prudish about relationship matters and vowed that never again would France see such an outrageous mixing of public and private life.
But one tweet from his partner Valérie Trierweiler, in which she publicly took sides against Hollande's ex, Ségolène Royal, has threatened to bring the president's "normal" image crashing down. French media describe a dangerous love-life "psychodrama", in which the once-nerdy Socialist president is "sandwiched" between two jealous women from his present and past – a "dysfunctional trio" at the highest levels of the French state, said the leftwing Libération. Journalists describe a love-triangle in which there is so much animosity that on stage after Hollande's election as soon as he gave Royal the standard French peck-on-the-cheek, Trierweiler demanded: "Kiss me on the mouth."
This is not just embarrassing for Hollande. It threatens to damage his presidential standing and dent the Socialists' fortunes in crucial parliament elections this Sunday. Instead of asking whether the new French president can handle the euro-crisis or Syria, commentators and politicians are asking whether he can handle his relationships. » | Angelique Chrisafis in Paris | Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
LE PARISIEN: À l'article >>> Marie Astier | Mardi 06 Juillet 2010
Monday, June 18, 2007
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« Nous avons décidé de ne plus être ensemble ». Ségolène Royal, sur France Inter, a confirmé lundi la séparation du couple qu’elle formait avec François Hollande, annoncée dimanche soir. Dans une interview réalisée samedi matin mais qui n’aurait du être diffusée que mardi, l’ex-candidate socialiste revient sur cette rupture qu’elle ne « commentera sur aucun autre média ». Une révélation qui ne devait pas intervenir dimanche soir, mais lundi matin, Ségolène Royal ne souhaitant pas interférer avec les résultats. "Il y a eu des fuites qui ont brisé le calendrier" a indiqué Thierry Masure, le journaliste de l'AFP qui a recueilli la confidence de Ségolène Royal le 9 juin, la veille du premier tour des législatives. Ségolène Royal : "Nous avons décidé de ne plus être ensemble" (suivant) Par Laurent Suply et Samuel Potier
WELTONLINE:
Als Ségolène Royal ihren Mann hinauswarf
NZZ:
Trennung «ohne politische Folgen»: Hollande äussert sich über das Ende seiner Beziehung zu Royal
TIMESONLINE:
France’s warring political couple separate
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:
Royal splits from partner and goes after his job
FAZ:
Ohne Rücksicht auf François
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