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Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, she participated in the 2007 French presidential election but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round.
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politics · French politician (born 1953) · politician · lawyer · also Ségolène Royal, Segolene Royal, Marie-Ségolène Royal, Marie-Segolene Royal, Royal
Born 22 September 1953 · Q81923
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2026· 9 entries
“The longer they put off admitting defeat and crticising themselves, the longer it will take for them to earn the confidence of their citizens.”
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“As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism.”
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“You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.”
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“During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.”
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“Today, the grandeur of a country is measured by the extent to which it defends and extends its citizens' rights through its impulse towards total equality, by its capacity to create energy that contributes towards cultural, social and economic growth. That is how a country becomes strong, by making its citizens more powerful.”
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“If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.”
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“There is a strong correlation between the status of a woman and the state of justice or injustice in a country.”
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The New York Times: Segolene Royal
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2016· 1 entry
Royal promised to install 1,000 km of 'solar roadways' in the next five years
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2012· 2 entries
“I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country”
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Royal ran for office representing Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency
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2011· 1 entry
And failed in an attempt to win a seat in the National Assembly in the June 2012 parliamentary elections
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2009· 7 entries
“It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.”
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“We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.”
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“I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.”
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“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.”
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“The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.”
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Declared herself to be "profoundly shocked" by statements of Pope Benedict XVI which claimed that the distribution of condoms will not stop the spread of AIDS
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“The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.”
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2008· 6 entries
Time: Segolene Royal Loses Bid for Top Party Post
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“In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.”
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Royal narrowly lost to Martine Aubry in the Socialist Party's election for First Secretary at the Party's twenty-second national congress
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Campaign: 2008 Socialist Party leadership election.
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“The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.”
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“I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little.”
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2007· 6 entries
“Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated.”
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Campaign: 2007 presidential candidacy.
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“Ségolène represents personal energy, good spirits and optimism, the determination to preside, the vocation to get things done instead of talking about it; as we have done in Spain.”
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“To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.”
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“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”
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According to her 2007 campaign website, Royal has advocated a policy of more humane prisons and supports creating better conditions inside penal institutions.
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2006· 5 entries
“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.”
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“opening up marriage to same-sex couples is needed in the name of equality, visibility and respect”
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The CPE (first employment contract) laws were proposed with large protests as a result
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“Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.”
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“Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.”
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2005· 9 entries
“For me, a republican is someone who defends public institutions and democratic values, someone who is a defender of public life, someone who repsects the principles of liberty, so in that sense we are very calm and at ease.”
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“The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilisation accepts violence or terror.”
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“My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life.”
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“We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.”
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“Peace is not a natural state of man, as the great pacifist Gandhi told us. But man can create it. If we have broken down walls that seemed unbreakable, we will not passively agree that more profound differences should their place.”
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“I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.”
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“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”
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“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan”
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“Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship”
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2004· 4 entries
Career landmark: President of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes (2004–2014).
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“Gender equality is more successful than armed force”
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“I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.”
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“If we live together, together we must decide.”
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2003· 1 entry
“With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.”
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2002· 2 entries
A law passed in February 2002, introduced by Royal on behalf of the Jospin government, allows some parental authority to be granted to same-sex partners.
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2002–2007).
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1998· 1 entry
Relative à la prévention et à la répression des infractions sexuelles ainsi qu'à la protection des mineurs), the "Campaign against hazing rituals in higher education" (Loi de juin 1998 contre le bizutage), the "Campaign
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1997–1997).
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1993· 3 entries
“A ojos de los chicos, el tanga reduce a las niñas a su parte posterior.”
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“Original: «Il faut subordonner, comme l’écrivait Jaurès, les lois brutales de la concurrence aux lois supérieures de la vie».[sin fuentes]”
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1993–1997).
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1989· 1 entry
Royal wrote The Channel-Surfing Kids Are Fed-Up, a book in which she criticised Japanese animation and superhero live-action series (then dominant in certain TV programs) as poor quality production detrimental for childr
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1988· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1988–1992).
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1980· 2 entries
Elected to serve as a judge (conseiller) of an administrative court before she was noticed by President François Mitterrand's special adviser Jacques Attali and recruited to his staff in 1982
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Studied at École nationale d'administration (1978–1980).
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1972· 1 entry
At the age of 19, Royal sued her father because he refused to divorce her mother and pay alimony and child support to finance the children's education
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-09-22.
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