Ségolène Royal’s blames Valérie Trierweiler for presidential defeat

But she told weekly magazine Le Point that it was now clear Miss Trierweiler
had kept Mr
Hollande
away from her during the presidential campaign.

“I realise that in 2007 (his affair with Trierweiler) can’t have helped
matters. I now understand why François didn’t help me,” she said.

She intimated she had been naive to trust her. “In 2007, I said to
myself: ‘It will pass, it’ll work itself out.’ So I took it on the chin,”
she said.

Miss Trierweiler met Mr Hollande while covering the Socialist Party for Paris
Match magazine, for whom she still works. The pair have been an item since
2005 but they and the French
media kept it quiet during the 2007 presidential elections so as not to
damage Miss Royal’s chances.

Miss Royal said it was outrageous that Miss Trierweiler’s employer had allowed
her to continue writing about Mr Hollande for so long given they were an
item.

“In an Anglo-Saxon country, she would have been fired the same day. But
Paris Match was not unhappy to see me weakened, so they let (their
relationship) go on deliberately (without saying anything), just like all
those others who knew …(Paris Match owner) Lagardère, Sarkozy …,”
she told Le Point.

She said Miss Trierweiler had no reason to attack her and that it was instead
her who had been wronged.

“The roles have been reversed. I’m the one whose family has been broken,
I’m the one who should bear a grudge,” she said.

The outburst came as Miss Trierweiler publicly revealed her struggle to come
to terms with Mr Hollande’s partner of 30 years in a book co-written by her,
charting his eight-month rise to the presidency, released yesterday.

In ‘François Hollande, President’, she writes highly personal commentaries
beside dozens of photos, including one showing Mr Hollande and his former
partner at a political rally in Rennes, Brittany, earlier this year.

Beside the photo, Miss Trierweiler writes: “Are they going to kiss, hold
hands? This is the crucial question my colleagues are asking.

“Yes, the man I love had a woman before me. And she happened to be a
presidential election candidate. I have to live with it.”

She also recounts when Mr Hollande learned he had won Socialist presidential
primaries in October last year.

She writes: “As soon as we heard the result, we went off on our together
for a few moments.

“He took me in his arms. Away from prying eyes. I cried. He laughed. Both
of us emotional.”

Miss Trierweiler also published her second article in Paris Match since
becoming First Lady yesterday – a review of a book called Breaking the
Charm. “Every family lugs around its share of dramas, secrets, and
elephants in the room.”

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