How Ségolène Royal, the “influencer”, disrupts the game on the left
By announcing that he wants to head a left-wing “union” list for the 2024 European elections, Ségolène Royal has found a place at the center of the political game.
On all fronts. Ségolène Royal made her debut as a columnist in Cyril Hanouna’s show, Touche pas à mon poste, broadcast on C8. An exercise which allows the former socialist candidate for the 2007 presidential election to cultivate freedom of speech.
Do not see in this a desire on his part to withdraw from political life. On the contrary, Ségolène Royal expressed her ambition to embody a “union” list of the left for the European elections of June 2024. A political coup orchestrated by her, with support, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
According to Olivier Peru, journalist at L’Express and author of the book Autopsie du corpse (Éditions Fayard), “Ségolène Royal is an influencer. Her political return is a success. She marked the political return of the left while being more of a personality leader of today’s left. No one on the left today, apart from Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande, is capable of having, like Ségolène Royal, this media strike force and this capacity to disrupt the game,” he explained.
Marie-Bénédicte Allaire, journalist in RTL’s political department, believes that Ségolène Royal “feels like she was right before anyone else”. “She has fantastic political intuition. During the 2007 presidential campaign, she was called ‘crazy’. We also remember Laurent Fabius’s phrase: ‘Who will look after the children?’. These are unimaginable things today. At the time, she was relatively isolated. So she feels like she opened up avenues.”
This article is originally published on .rtl.fr
