Ségolène Royal in Paris on February 28, 2020. - ISA HARSIN / SIPA

The former PS presidential candidate of 2007 takes another step towards a new candidacy in 2020 and she wants to make it known. After an interview with Le Figaro on June 30, Ségolène Royal said she was ready to AFP Wednesday "to lead the battle" during the next presidential election, highlighting her "experience" and her "ecological identity". For the moment, it places only two conditions on its ambitions: "to be useful and [that] the left [has] the capacity to come together".

Bring together the PS and the environmentalists

According to her, “the good signal from the municipalities is that the ecology is anchored on the left. The environmentalists know my work, I am a candidate difficult to denounce by them. Several times Minister of the Environment or Ecology (of the Bérégovoy then Valls and Cazeneuve governments), Ségolène Royal, 66, insists on the work she has done in the Poitou-Charentes region, which she led from 2004 to 2014, "with socialists, ecologists, centrists". "I demonstrated that it could work," she says.

“We are told that the Macron / Le Pen face-to-face in the second round in 2022 is an inescapable fact. It is impossible not to move! The dam vote no longer works. I don't want to see Marine Le Pen, the first President of the Republic, arrive and tell me at that time that I would have done nothing to prevent that, ”she explains. But “I am not on a personal itinerary. If someone is better placed than me, I will support them, ”she also said. It remains to be seen how she will judge her position within two years.

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