Royal: "I have a particular contact with the people, it is my strength"

Segolene Royal, candidate for the leadership of the PS, said in an interview with Le Monde on Wednesday that it has "a particular contact with the people" who does "strength" and "some intrigue".

Asked about the strong statements made by his Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal advance "three explanations for such violence" word.

"First, I symbolizes the change and even failure. That bothers a lot when I twenty-five years of activism within the PS. Then j'incarne the legitimacy that gave me the presidential campaign. Finally I have a particular contact with the people. This is my strength and some intrigue, "says the president of the Poitou-Charentes.

According Ségolène Royal, the Congress of Reims was "a game of poker liar." "In principle," she says, "is gathering around the arrival point in mind. This is the rule. But because it was me and a new generation, they have refused to comply," she says. "They have made this conference a question of people," said she.

"It was a congress of obstruction to the motion arrival in mind," she insists. The motion of Ms. Royal has raised 29% to those of Bertrand Delanoë (25.2%), Martine Aubry (24.3%) and Benoit Hamon (18.5%).

Ségolène Royal believes that the PS has the obligation to change. " "Today, the real risk is immobility," she says.

"The PS is before a crucial choice: to fly or huddled, close in on itself or open to the world, away or reborn on the chance to create a joyful party, mestizo, creative, constructive" , She says.

If she is appointed first secretary of the PS, Ms. Royal wants to reform the institutions of the party. It is inclusive and intends to "build a team open to other motions, including that of Benoit Hamon. It hopes to convince people of talent like Pierre Moscovici and Jean-Yves Le Drian, PS chairmen of the Brittany region that had supported the mayor of Paris.

His first decision will be immediately contact the responsible European Socialists, since France has the EU presidency, to organize "a global forum with the European PS, the trade union movement and NGOs.