Ségolène Royal in Nice mobilizes her troops behind her presidential pact

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“I am not disappointed to have come here.” Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party candidate for the presidency, began her forty-minute speech, which was frequently interrupted by applause and chants of “Ségolène President!” Members of the MJS (Young Socialists Movement) created a lively atmosphere, waving flags. Although it’s the first time in 33 years, it is not Ségolène Royal’s first visit to Nice. A year ago, she had visited a prestigious hotel. On Friday, she chose a gymnasium in the heart of the popular Saint-Roch neighborhood over the large Nikaïa hall. It was a symbolic choice, slightly less practical, like direction signs for a wedding or communion pointing to the meeting’s location. This meeting was an appointment with the people of the left in the Azurean region. There was no mistaking it. Before the candidate entered the small Leyrit stage, speakers such as Marc Concas, a general councilor from the Socialist Party, Ladislas Polski (MRC), Michel Vauzelle, president of the PACA region who predicted that “Bayrou will sink in his lie,” Jean-Louis Bianco, campaign director for Ségolène Royal, Elodie Jomat (PRG), Jean Donis, PS mayor of Valbonne, and others like Paul Cuturello and Yann Librati took turns speaking. They reiterated their reasons for supporting Ségolène Royal.

Without notes, dressed in jeans and a leather jacket, Ségolène Royal continuously engaged with the 3000 spectators, members and sympathizers of the Socialist Party, not seeing all those who listened and watched her in the street on a giant screen. “Do you want this victory? Are you ready to mobilize for it? It all depends on you.” Ségolène Royal urged her fans to support her even more, to help her campaign on the ground. She motivated her troops in the final stretch of the campaign: “The hour of truth will sound. The French are attentive and will compare the projects of each candidate.” For this, she was diligent in presenting her presidential pact. She had a word for every segment of the population, like the “teachers who are not police auxiliaries.” Two themes emerged from her speech: institutional reforms and national identity.

“All elected officials, in this Sixth Republic, will have to be accountable. Having the trust of the citizens is a huge responsibility, and there is none greater than to decide in the name of the general interest and to spend public funds.” One of the favored measures of the Sixth Republic from the deputy of Deux-Sèvres and the president of the Poitou-Charentes region is to no longer allow the accumulation of mandates, aiming to have only one function per politician, thereby opening up political corporatism to a greater number of people. Like the day before in Marseille, Ségolène Royal, in a region marked by the significant scores of the extreme right, also seized the symbols of the Nation: “France must remain faithful to its values… Values of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Secularism, and one does not go without the other. The refoundation of our identity is the complete opposite of retracting into oneself, and for too long the left has allowed this monopoly to the right or the extreme right, while being clear about this identity that does not ask citizens where they come from but where they want to go together.” She had explained earlier in the day that she wished that the French would all have a tricolor flag at home and display it on July 14.

“Let’s ensure that the expectations and interests of each converge. We are in a system, and this is the project of the right, which consists of exacerbating contradictions, oppositions, those who enrich themselves at the expense of the majority, those who respect the rules and those who want to free themselves from them. The French will have to choose their rules of the game.” She invites the French to choose her project, which she outlined during her participatory debates. The crowd at Leyrit is won over, but according to the rules set by candidate Royal, it will be up to the same crowd to make her win, voice after voice conquered on the ground in a great popular movement hoped for by Ségolène.

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