has been<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe choice of an extremely popular woman to represent the French left in next year’s presidential election is prompting centre-right backbenchers to ask the question: does it take a woman to beat one?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNicolas Sarkozy, 51, the dynamic but by no means well loved interior minister, regards himself as the best candidate to succeed Jacques Chirac. But the emergence of S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal, an attractive mother of four, as the Socialist runner is giving the divided Gaullist family ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEnter Mich\u00e8le Alliot-Marie. Chirac once described the defence minister as the best pair of legs in the party and he was not referring to the fact that Mam, as she is known after her initials, is believed to be the only woman in politics who can execute a rugby drop kick.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbAlliot-Marie, a prot\u00e9g\u00e9e of Chirac, rose quickly through the Gaullist ranks with an instinctive understanding of how to humour the party’s elephants, as the political bigwigs are called. I stroked their trunks, she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbShe has certainly got the military marching to her tune since she became defence minister in 2002 and scepticism about the prospect of having a woman in charge has given way to admiration and respect for the glamour she has brought to the role with her trouser suits and cashmere scarves.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt also helps to have a sense of humour. Told by a pompous usher that it was illegal for women to wear trousers in parliament, she replied: Shall I take them off then?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl est vrai que dans l’atmosph\u00e8re r\u00e9volutionnaire et romantique qui commence \u00e0 parcourir aujourd’hui la France, l’id\u00e9e d’une femme pr\u00e9sidente semble de plus en plus prendre la forme de la rupture que tout le monde souhaite sans savoir quelle forme lui donner. Pour assurer, rien ne vaut un deuxi\u00e8me tour avec deux femmes. Les Anglais semblent preneurs \u00e0 100%. (Ils ne savent pas ce qu’ils font : une French President<\/em> du calibre de l’une des deux, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne ou MAM, pourrait leur faire regretter les sourires de Chirac.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCette acceptation internationale de ce qui appara\u00eet comme une v\u00e9ritable r\u00e9volution des murs politiques (une femme d\u00e9sign\u00e9e \u00e0 la fonction pr\u00e9sidentielle par le suffrage populaire, circonstance d’une l\u00e9gitimation solennelle, tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente d’une d\u00e9signation par un parti ou un Pr\u00e9sident, comme Thatcher, Cresson ou Merkel) donne aux Fran\u00e7aises concern\u00e9es S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne et peut-\u00eatre MAM demain un poids politique compl\u00e8tement inattendu. Ce facteur insaisissable et myst\u00e9rieux de l’acceptation, puis de la popularit\u00e9 d’une id\u00e9e aussi r\u00e9volutionnaire, pourrait \u00eatre l’\u00e9l\u00e9ment perturbateur de l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de 2007. Cela est d’autant plus concevable que les deux femmes concern\u00e9es semblent parfaitement \u00e0 m\u00eame de s’affirmer politiquement, selon des positions tranch\u00e9es, simples et tr\u00e8s populaires. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t(Assez curieusement et comme en passant, et sans doute par inadvertance ou bien est-ce un lapsus r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur ? le journaliste Matthew Campbell fait une g\u00e2terie aux Fran\u00e7ais en d\u00e9signant la fonction de pr\u00e9sident\/pr\u00e9sidente de la r\u00e9publique de cette fa\u00e7on [soulign\u00e9 en gras par nous] : \u00aband Sarkozy, who has tended to dismiss Royal as a lightweight unworthy of<\/em> the most powerful executive post in Europe<\/em><\/strong>, may not yet have understood the danger he faces from her appeal as a champion of renewal.<\/em>\u00bb )<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 26 novembre 2006 \u00e0 11H43<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La presse britannique, y compris la plus s\u00e9rieuse comme le Sunday Times de Londres, raffole de l’id\u00e9e d’avoir une femme pr\u00e9sidente de l’autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 du Chanel. Cela rendrait peut-\u00eatre les Fran\u00e7ais supportables, vu que ce qu’ils ont de plus pr\u00e9cieux ce sont les vins, les bijoux et les femmes. Apr\u00e8s avoir encens\u00e9 S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne, le Times… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6166,6167,5925,6147,5833,2852],"class_list":["post-68238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-mam","tag-presidente","tag-sarko","tag-segolene","tag-sunday","tag-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}