Ségolène Royal during the tribute ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the death of François Mitterrand at the Jarnac cemetery.

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“I am going to lead a 'citizen list' which transcends the right / left divides.

»Ségolène Royal indicated, this Saturday, to launch out in the senatorial elections for the French people abroad.

The former presidential candidate and president of the NGO Désirs d'avenir pour la planet did not ask for the inauguration of the PS but will nevertheless be "attached to the socialist group of the Senate".

Number two on his list will be Mehdi Benlahcen, PS president of the Solidarity and Ecology group (bringing together many elected socialists, environmentalists and various left) at the Assembly of French Abroad.

An election postponed by a year due to Covid-19

Ségolène Royal, finalist in the 2007 presidential election, said she had made her decision because of the decision of Claudine Lepage, current PS senator for the French outside France, not to stand for re-election.

The senatorial elections took place in September 2020, but due to the health crisis, the election of the six senators of French people living outside France was postponed for a year.

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