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Pension reform, ecology, Emmanuel Macron's pension: Ségolène Royal multiplies the attacks against the executive and annoys the majority. "They no longer know what to invent to silence me," denounces the former minister, who should be summoned to the National Assembly to explain his record as ambassador of the poles.

Ségolène Royal warns the macronie that she will not disarm: "I will continue whenever it is necessary. They will have to get used to it," she said Thursday in an interview with AFP.

In recent days, the Twitter account of the socialist presidential candidate 2007 seems to observe a kind of Christmas truce. But his last message dated December 22 still rings in the ears of macronie. Commenting on the announcement that Emmanuel Macron was going to give up his future pension as former president, she asked "the real question", that of "knowing if he gives up going back after the Elysee in the world of global business with huge hats retreats that go with it. "

The tweet, the latest in a series of salvos criticizing the power over pesticides, pension reform or the hospital, immediately triggered an outcry from the supporters of Mr. Macron, from LREM MP Aurore Bergé to Alexandre Benalla .

"We have learned to follow the intensity of the criticisms of Ségolène Royal according to the proximity or the distance in which it was to participate, near or far, in official functions in the government or close to the government. These criticisms must mean that at the moment, it is very far from it, "pings the boss of the deputies on the march, Gilles Le Gendre, on LCI.

"She is swollen, she wants Macron because he did not propose her as commissioner of France to the European Commission", engages Daniel Cohn-Bendit, former EELV MEP who became close to Emmanuel Macron, by evoking " a revenge "on the part of Mrs. Royal.

In Le Point, Brice Teinturier, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Ipsos, sees in the daily criticisms of the former Minister of the Environment "pure demagoguery" and an "excess of opportunism", motivated by the desire to please to "a very left-wing electorate".

It is in this context that the Figaro reveals, on the eve of Christmas Eve, that Mrs. Royal will soon receive a summons to the National Assembly to answer for her record as ambassador of the poles, a position to which she was appointed by Emmanuel Macron.

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Two deputies, Christophe Naegelen (UDI) and Eric Girardin (LREM) want to hear his explanations on "his absence from all the official meetings of the Arctic Council which have been held since his appointment" two years ago and " his almost weekly media interventions on national politics ".

"She seems more active in national politics than in her role as ambassador," said UDI president Jean-Christophe Lagarde to AFP.

Reacting Thursday to this "communication operation", Mrs. Royal says that she is "not fooled by political ulterior motives".

"They no longer know what to invent to silence me because any word of truth which denounces the serious social disorders from which France suffers disturbs them", she said to AFP, determined to defend herself energetically against all of these " slander. "

Already implicated in mid-November for the use of her ambassadorial means for personal ends, Mrs. Royal had assured that "everything is false", by promising to go "to file a complaint for defamation", a threat that remained until here dead letter.

It is "impossible to use a ministerial budget line" as you please. "There is a financial controller!", Argues Thursday who has entrusted the past few months not to exclude a candidacy for the Elysee in 2022.

His defenders denounce a reprisal operation. "Everyone understood: it is a question of eliminating all the candidates - it is done with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it is done with Ségolène Royal - potentials in the presidential election, while preserving Madame Le Pen well" , considers François Kalfon, regional advisor and member of the PS national office, accusing Emmanuel Macron of doing everything to find himself once again facing Marine Le Pen in the second round in 2022.

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