Presidential election 2027. Royal does not spare Glucksmann: “You do not put an intern at the head of a company”

Ségolène Royal is on the offensive. The candidate for the Social Democratic primary on Sunday singled out the supposed inexperience and “lack of knowledge of the people” of her opponent in the primary Raphaël Glucksmann. “To lead a country, you must already have a job. Or having led even just a local community or a state structure and obtained concrete positive results,” pointed out in an interview with Release the former socialist minister.

Asked what sets her apart from the MEP, Ségolène Royal highlighted her “experience”. “A socialist woman, I have proven myself in the difficult exercise of local, national and international democratic command,” she assured. As for Raphaël Glucksmann, “you don’t put an intern at the head of a company. It’s dangerous. The French want experienced managers who have a positive track record. They do not want to start again like with Macron and his ignorance of the people and the deep country, which led us to so much brutality, so much contempt and decline,” Ségolène Royal further asserted.

A “Mitterrandist” line

Former PS candidate in 2007, beaten in the second round by Nicolas Sarkozy, Ségolène Royal will compete in this primary against Raphaël Glucksmann, the boss of the PS Olivier Faure, the PS deputy Jérôme Guedj, and the boss of the small Republican and Socialist Left (GRS) party Emmanuel Maurel.

Three short weeks before the first round, scheduled for October 9 and 10, Ségolène Royal has chosen to campaign for “a quiet France, without brutality or cynicism, therefore without desperate social movements because they will have been managed before, with listening, wisdom and humility”.

She also endeavored to distance herself from Macronism, seeing “two political lines” at work in this primary. “Mine, Mitterrandist: in the first round of a presidential election, we unite our camp, without sectarianism; in the second, on this base, we widen. The other line is: “In the first round, we will grab the center and the right, and then if we are too weak to block LFI, we will ally with the Macronist candidate in the first round against ministries and constituencies.” “, she described.

A second option which, according to her, would mean the “disappearance” of the PS and the advent of the RN: “the “soft” social democrats who put forward liberal proposals to please the right will collapse and Marine Le Pen will have a boulevard. »