Segolene Royal (Politician) – Overview, Biography

Name:Segolene Royal
Occupation: Politician
Gender:Female
Birth Day: September 22,
1953
Age: 67
Birth Place: Ouakam,
Senegal
Zodiac Sign:Virgo

Segolene Royal

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Segolene Royal was born on September 22, 1953 in Ouakam, Senegal (67 years old). Segolene Royal is a Politician, zodiac sign: Virgo. Nationality: Senegal. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

She wrote the book The Channel-Surfing Kids Are Fed-Up, which was published in 1989.

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Before Fame

She graduated from Ecole nationale d’administration in 1980.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1953

Ségolène Royal was born on 22 September 1953 in the military base of Ouakam, Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal), the daughter of Hélène Dehaye and Jacques Royal, a former artillery officer and aide to the mayor of Chamagne (Vosges).

1972

After secondary school in the small town of Melle, Deux-Sèvres, Marie-Ségolène attended a local university where she graduated 2nd in her class with a degree in Economics. Her eldest sister then suggested she prepare the entrance exam to the elite Institut d’études politiques de Paris popularly called Sciences Po, which she attended on scholarship. There she discovered politics of class and feminism (“Sciences Po” at the time was 85% upper-class Parisian, mostly male). In 1972, at the age of 19, Royal sued her father because he refused to divorce her mother and pay alimony and child support to finance the children’s education. She won the case after many years in court, shortly before Jacques Royal died of lung cancer in 1981. Six of the eight children had refused to see him again, Ségolène included.

1980

After graduating in 1980, she elected to serve as a judge (conseiller) of an administrative court before she was noticed by President François Mitterrand’s special adviser Jacques Attali and recruited to his staff in 1982. She held the junior rank of chargée de mission from 1982 to 1988.

1989

In 1989, Royal authored a book called The Channel-Surfing Kids Are Fed-Up, where she criticised Japanese animation (then dominant in certain TV programs) as poor quality production detrimental for children.

2002

A law passed in February 2002, introduced by Royal on behalf of the Jospin government, allows some parental authority to be granted to same-sex partners. The law amended Article 377 of the Civil Code in allowing a parent to ask a judge to share his/her parental authority with a partner. Article 377-1, added by the law, ensures that “delegation may provide, for the needs of education of a child, that the father and mother, or one of them, shall share all or part of the exercise of parental authority with the third person delegatee”.

2004

On 28 March 2004, she obtained 55% in the second round in the regional election in Poitou-Charentes, notably defeating Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s protégée, Élisabeth Morin, in his home region. She was elected president of the region the next week. She kept her National Assembly seat until June 2007, when she chose not to run in the legislative election, in agreement with one of her presidential campaign’s promises. She organised a run-off between two contenders; the winner, Delphine Batho, went on to win the district for her and Royal’s party.

2005

On 22 September 2005 Paris Match published an interview in which she declared that she was considering running for the presidency in 2007. In 2006 the CPE (first employment contract) laws were proposed with large protests as a result. Rather than going to the organised protest, she voted a law in her “région” whereby no company using that type of contract would receive the Région’s subsidies. The government backed down and stated that the law would be put on the statute book, but that it would not be applied. After this event Royal was tipped as the lead contender in what is dubbed the “Sarko-Ségo” race against Nicolas Sarkozy. Until that time, she had not been thought a likely candidate as she had stayed out of the Socialist Party’s power struggles.

2006

On 7 April 2006, Royal launched an Internet-led electoral campaign at Désirs d’avenir (“Desires for the future”), publishing the first of ten chapters of her political manifesto.

Her status as a presidential candidate became more likely on 28 September 2006, when Lionel Jospin, the Socialist former Prime Minister and a fixture in French politics for nearly three decades, announced that he would not run after all. Jack Lang followed suit. On 16 November, Royal defeated Laurent Fabius and Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the French Socialist Party primary, becoming the party’s candidate for the 2007 presidential election. The Socialist party’s members voted 60.69% for her and gave a bit under 20% each to the more traditional contenders. She also won in 101 of 104 of the Socialist Party’s fédérations, losing only Haute-Corse, Mayotte and Seine-Maritime (the latter being the home region of Laurent Fabius).

In January 2006, she criticised secondary school teachers (workers of state public service) who give private lessons outside school hours, saying that they should spend more time in school. When a bootleg video of the speech surfaced on the Internet in November 2006, the teachers’ union SNES rebuffed her, requesting that she renounce her proposal.

From December 2006 Royal began travelling abroad extensively, but her efforts were set back by a series of blunders, which her political opponents at UMP were quick to jump on.

2007

One of her top advisors, Éric Besson, resigned soon afterwards over a disagreement about the costs of this programme, which he believes could reach €35 billion, while others in the campaign team wanted to delay bringing out that figure.[The figure was equivalent to that of Mr. Sarkozy’s but higher than Mr. Bayrou’s, who was becoming a key figure in the race.] This led to an unusually bitter fall-out, and Mr Besson writing a book titled Qui connaît Madame Royal ? (Who knows Mrs Royal?), published on 20 March. In it, Besson accuses Royal of being a populist, an authoritarian and a luddite and says that he will not vote for her and hopes that she is not elected. He then went on to join the Sarkozy campaign and was rewarded with a junior position in the next government on 18 May 2007.

Royal entered the leadership election of the Socialist Party to replace her former common law husband François Hollande as head of the party. She garnered the largest plurality of votes in the first round of voting, but not enough to win outright; she was eventually narrowly defeated in the second round by rival Martine Aubry by the margin of 42 votes. After a vote recount, Aubry was declared the winner 25 November 2008, with the margin widening to 102 votes. Royal has announced her intentions to contest the result. Royal has blamed party leaders and her former partner for her loss in the 2007 election.

Royal visited China in January 2007; after speaking with a lawyer in that country she noted to the press that he had pointed out to her that the Chinese legal system was “faster” than the French one. She was immediately reminded by her opponents at home that the Chinese system orders 10,000 executions each year, and that defence lawyers there must be authorised by the Communist Party. She however brought up with her hosts the fate of three Chinese journalists recently imprisoned, and criticised the “meekness” of French entrepreneurs in tackling new markets such as China. Royal was criticised by French and international media by what was called “mangling the French language” in a soundbite delivered on the Great Wall of China. She used the word bravitude instead of the word bravoure, which means bravery.

In January 2007, during a meeting with Quebec opposition leader and Parti Québécois head André Boisclair, she declared her support for the Quebec sovereignty movement in its aim to secede from Canada. Royal said Quebec and France share common values, including “sovereignty and Quebec’s freedom”. Soon after, Royal took a phone call from comedian Gérald Dahan pretending to be Quebec Premier Jean Charest, and was tricked into making a quip about Corsica’s independence: “Not all French people would be opposed.” She then added, “But don’t repeat that or we’ll have another scandal on our hands.”

On 5 April 2007, when commenting on the kidnapping of two Frenchmen by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Royal called for sanctions to be imposed by the United Nations against regimes like the Taliban. This comment was widely interpreted as indicating that Royal did not understand that the Taliban no longer formed the Afghan government and that she was clueless on international matters.

From the late 1970s, Royal was the partner of François Hollande, former President of France, whom she met at ENA. The couple had four children: Thomas (born 1984), Clémence (born 1985), Julien (born 1987) and Flora (born 1992). They were neither married (considering it too “bourgeois”) nor bound by a PACS (pacte civil de solidarité, which provides for a civil union between two adults, regardless of gender), contrary to rumours. A news agency leaked news of their separation in June 2007, on the evening of the legislative election. According to the Guardian, she had asked Hollande “to move out of the house” and pursue his new love interest “which has been detailed in books and newspapers” – a reference to a much-discussed chapter by journalists explaining how Hollande was having a long-term affair with a journalist.

2008

After her separation with Hollande, political relations between them were tense, though they have both stated that they remained friends. In the 2008 Socialist Party leadership election, Hollande backed another candidate, and Royal has blamed him and the party establishment for her 2007 Presidential defeat.

2009

Royal favours, and has worked for, the “Parental rights and obligations act” (Loi sur l’autorité parentale), the “Women’s rights reform and anonymous childbirth act” (l’accouchement sous X), the creation of paternity leave, the creation of 40,000 new spaces in French nursery schools, and Social housing reform. She has been active in campaigns providing for “Parental time-off provisions and financial support for child illness care”, Special education support (parents d’enfants handicapés), “Benefit allocations for students starting the new school year” (Allocation de rentrée scolaire), and the “Prostitution of Minors Act” (Loi contre la prostitution des mineurs) which provides penal measures for clients. Royal has supported the “Law against child pornography”, the creation of the association “Childhood and the Media” (Enfance et média) against violence in the media, the creation of the Plan Handiscole for the education of handicapped children and adolescents and their integration into life at school, programs for mass and individual transportation, and the creation of the program “Tourism and the Handicapped” (Tourisme et handicap). In 2009, she declared herself to be “profoundly shocked” by statements of Pope Benedict XVI which claimed that the distribution of condoms will not stop the spread of AIDS. Royal added that “the responsibility of any religious leader” is to “defend the principle of life, and certainly not to urge human beings towards their deaths.”

2011

Royal ran in the French Socialist Party presidential primary election of 2011, the party’s first ever open primary. She arrived 4th in the first round on 9 October 2011 with a mere 6.95% of votes, considerably below the figures suggested by opinion polls.

2012

In 2012, Royal ran for office representing Charente-Maritime’s 1st constituency. She lost the election to a dissident Socialist, Olivier Falorni.

2013

Royal was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50 by The Guardian in March 2013.

2014

On 2 April 2014 Royal was appointed Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Manuel Valls, In January 2015 she was third in line in governmental rank, after the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

Increasingly, commentators have seen Royal as President François Hollande’s stand-in for some important state occasions. When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in November 2014, Royal was the senior French official there to greet him. After the deadly attacks against a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in January 2015, she traveled to Israel to represent France at the memorial services.

2017

When Emmanuel Macron was elected French President in May 2017, Royal hoped to be offered a position in his government but instead was offered the position of Ambassador for the Poles, which she accepted in June 2017. In late 2018 the publication of Royal’s book “Ce que je peux enfin vous dire” (What I can finally tell you) detailing the sexism she had suffered throughout her political career, coincided with a decline in Macron’s popularity at the time of the Gilets jaunes protests and resulted in speculation that Royal was contemplating a political comeback. After repeatedly and publicly criticizing Macron’s handling of pension reform, it was announced by the Council of Ministers that the Mission to the Poles would be ended, effectively removing Royal from her position, in tandem with an official investigation being launched inquiring about alleged misuse of public funds during Royal’s time in office.

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