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ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:29 PM Apr 2014

Ségolène Royal gets key role in French cabinet reshuffle

Source: The Guardian


Royal at a handover ceremony in Paris on Wednesday, 22 years after Hollande's ex-partner took up her first ministerial job.

Ségolène Royal, the French president's former partner, has been given a key cabinet position in a dramatic government reshuffle.

Royal, 60, was appointed environment, sustainable development and energy minister in François Hollande's new "government of combat", a shakeup regarded as the president's last chance to fulfil his election pledges and salvage his reputation.

It is a long-awaited comeback for Royal, an experienced politician and former Socialist party (PS) presidential candidate and came exactly 22 years after she took up her first ministerial job on 2 April 1992.

She had been angling for a government post since Hollande was elected in 2012, despite having witheringly said of her former partner before he came to power: "Can the French people name a single thing he has achieved in 30 years in politics?"

However, Royal's enforced exile was due more to personal than political reasons. The president, who does not like conflict, felt unable to appoint her for fear of upsetting his former partner Valérie Trierweiler, for whom he left Royal, the mother of his four children.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/segolene-royal-french-cabinet-reshuffle



well there's a silver lining. . . .
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Ségolène Royal gets key role in French cabinet reshuffle (Original Post) ucrdem Apr 2014 OP
Ah...the French! Seriously...must go watch Engrenages again. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #1
Thanks for the tip. ucrdem Apr 2014 #5
Netflix has it...it's awesome. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #6
Happier days: ucrdem Apr 2014 #2
Great!!! Beacool Apr 2014 #3
Glad she's back. ucrdem Apr 2014 #4
I think that she would be a better president. Beacool Apr 2014 #7
Hopefully, she has better judgement in policies and laws... nikto Apr 2014 #8

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
3. Great!!!
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:54 PM
Apr 2014

My family in France are big supporters of Segolene, particularly my sister in law. She must be thrilled.

Segolene is the one who should have been president, unfortunately she lost to Sarkozy. Her ex (Hollande) is no great shakes either.




As for Valérie Trierweiler, she should have remembered that what goes around, comes around.



Beacool

(30,244 posts)
7. I think that she would be a better president.
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 08:53 PM
Apr 2014

Hollande has turned out to be not that good at his job.

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