A little phrase like the one François Hollande likes makes people react. The former president’s comments about Ségolène Royal angered the left when he was invited, during a program on Saturday night, to ask each political figure whose photo he was presented with a question.
“Ségolène Royal is the mother of my children (…). You have to take care of the little one,” replied the socialist, between laughter and applause from the public, on France 2.
“Class”
Olivier Faure, himself the target of a François Hollande pike, did not appreciate the comment directed at Ségolène Royal.
“Class”, ironically judged on his Twitter account the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, a long-time collaborator of François Hollande in the National Assembly.
The tensions between the leadership of the Socialist Party and the former president are not new. The Corrézien has made known on several occasions its very strong disapproval of the alliance between the PS and La France insoumise, gathered in the National Assembly in the Nupes intergroup.
“Retirement Is Now”
Relations between François Hollande and Ségolène Royal have not always been good in recent years either. The couple had separated in 2007 in the middle of the presidential campaign after 30 years of relationship, while the fifty-year-old was a presidential candidate.
In 2012, in the midst of a legislative campaign, Valérie Trierweiler, in a relationship at the time with the new President of the Republic, had supported the dissident socialist candidate against Ségolène Royal who had finally lost.
The Insoumi, whose candidacy supported Ségolène Royal for the last presidential elections, were not more tender.
“Retirement is now,” the deputy La France insoumise Manuel Bompard wrote on the social network, referring to François Hollande’s slogan during the 2012 presidential elections.
“Vengeful, mean-spirited, never lucid, terribly rude”
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not react to François Hollande’s words, the two men, who sat together for several decades within the socialist party, have had stormy relations for years.
“Vengeful, mean-spirited, never clear-headed about himself and his sorry record, and above all terribly rude to his ex-wife. Holland hits what can be said to be the craziest thing in a few answers,” LFI MP Alexis Corbiere judged. .
Sandrine Rousseau asked him for his part to “let now” the left “build ecology.” “You are stopping us”, said the green deputy, also pointed out by the words of the former president. The candidate to succeed Julien Bayou at the head of Europe-Ecology-Les-Verts (EELV), Marine Tondelier, described François Hollande’s departure as “sexist”.
“I prefer not to say anything. A complaint is always possible,” François Hollande had rebuked in the same program.
Source: BFM TV
