The privacy fallout continues.
Two top journalists from Le Monde are publishing a dissection of the Segolene Royal, Francois Hollande couple. It argues that the couple has been in total meltdown since 2005 and that Segolene's unlikely run was very much fueled by their union's implosion.
The authors are stellar reporters so consider it true, but being French establishment journos, it also remains ambiguous. No word exactly on what sparked the couple's demise (an infidelity apparently) and where it all stands now.
The couple in question have decided to sue the writers, though who knows how serious that legal pursuit is.
The news helps explain a lot of the ambiguities surrounding the Socialist campaign. Twenty-something Thomas Hollande's close collaboration with his mother always had a whiff of taking sides in a painful divorce to it. Then there were pictures of the daughters accompanying mom on a snap vacation to Italy. Those snaps had a "getting through a family crisis" feel about them too.
But most importantly, it explains the deep allergy Segolene maintained to her party, led by Francois, from the very start of her campaign. Her run for the presidency was dysfunctional par excellence and now, this book would have it, we know why.
UPDATE:
Versac says it straight. Didn't the French voter have the right to know this before? Many a journalist relayed a pack of lies up to now.
Comments