2027 Presidential Election: Ségolène Royal Announces Candidacy for Left's Primary

Former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has announced her intention to run in the Socialist Party's primary for the 2027 presidential election. The 72-year-old politician declared her candidacy on her X account, emphasizing humility and a lack of ego in her approach.

Royal, who was the Socialist Party's nominee in 2007, aims to rally the left around a five-point plan. This plan focuses on "a just order, the climate emergency, the energy emergency, the reconstruction of a strong state, and the mediating power." Her announcement signals a potential return to the national political stage after a significant absence.

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I take this initiative with humility, without ego, and without a posture of superiority as we see too often.

In her statement, Royal did not shy away from criticizing potential rivals, particularly Marine Le Pen. She expressed strong opposition to far-right extremism, racism, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia. Royal stated her inability to remain inactive in the face of the possibility that the first female president of France could emerge from the far-right movement.

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To serve, by being attentive, with discernment, experienced, and respectful of different points of view. Except for the insurmountable limit of racism and anti-Semitism. Of sexism to homophobia. And of the far-right, at the gates of power: how could I do nothing, faced with the hypothesis that the first woman in the history of France to reach the presidency would come from it?