INQUIRY – End of the environmental tax chargeable against highways, Segolene Royal has signed a comeback to the forefront of the political scene. Apparently it has not changed, pushing his freedom of speech to the limits of government quack. But its iconic status protects
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And if Ségolène Royal had underestimated the difficulties at the end of the eco-tax? She wanted to be free from the “sticky folder inherited from the former majority” not “pollute” communication on its Energy Transition Act passed Tuesday by the Assembly and avoid a road blockade. She has completed her third goal. Environmentalists parliamentarians well passed its law, but on a grumpy mode. Even Daniel Cohn-Bendit came out of retirement to criticize: “Make this law without ecological taxation is disarm. “ On the other hand, the administration is tearing his hair out about the levy on the highways Ecology Minister calls for … And now Segolene Royal challenged on two fronts. The third – his proposal to make free highways weekend – was immediately closed by Manuel Valls. Those who praised his political acumen in the negotiations on the energy transition now refer to the “DIY ” on the tax issue. A peak for the authority which just last week the “echoes”: “I can unite around the theme of ecology not punitive. It is still not going to rock the boat, especially not in the name of the environment! “ With Ségolène Royal, it was actually there two classes of subjects: those she mastered to the point of finding a good balance, and the others … in which she still beliefs. This is what makes it advance and it is also taken from the walls. “I never give up,” she said often.
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When we received on October 7 in the office of minister, he smiled again. And that’s just it sums up his mood of the moment: “No discomfort. I occupy my place. “ From the” discomfort “, she rarely had during his long political career marked by the seal of the cap. The certainty of not seeing his questioning skill is however new to the former candidate for the 2007 presidential Twenty-two years after his first visit to the Department of Ecology, his appointment was applauded by the environmentalists. “I restores the attractiveness ecology” , she glides. At the head of one of the few departments where she can marry “solutions for everyday life” and ‘invention of the future’ , she has the opportunity to give back perspective to a five-year mired in crisis and economic debates: “My subjects pierce the gloom” . Environmentalists parliamentarians are then charmed. They appreciate that she has agreed to set an interim target (30% by 2030) for reducing energy consumption “While Matignon and the Elysée were not hot” . They are grateful to have left sanction “against the advice of his services” , planned obsolescence him. “If all the ministers had the same quality of listening and dialogue, it would go a lot better between the majority parties’ , supports the Green MP Denis Baupin. When around a couscous, he recently expressed his satisfaction with François Hollande, the head of state agreed: “She is very professional. “
In near-Minister, we finally breathe. “Until 2011, Ségolène was the one that cleaved to renovate. In 2014, it is one that brings together “ enthuses the former Minister Guillaume Garot. And not just because it is customary to seek consensus in the department dealing with “the future of the planet” . Something did change in the positioning and how to make the minister. She no longer denounces “notables” , she receives. She no longer declares war resists it, she prefers coax. There are seven, she willingly castigated bank lobbies, oil and nuclear. Today, she says “phones that heat” – it’s always good to note that there is fighting – but says “understand” . “My logic is not to crush the lobbies , she says, is to show them that they had better move because it is the sense of history and it is irreversible “. The search for “convergences” rather than the technique of ram … The associations end up doubting his determination: “you have to know over the wall lobbies” s’ Anne Brigneault concerned, Climate Action Network. The Minister argues, on the contrary, the ‘strategy effective decision “.
A reputation as a “antitechno”
In political veteran, Segolene Royal knows that an executive course, caught between the disenchantment of his constituents and monitoring of Brussels, can not afford to increase the standoff. Passionate opinion research since his advisor at the Elysee under Mitterrand, she realized that most French have become allergic to anything that could get messy. She also paid a stall its popularity its first lurch: the interview to “Paris Match” in which she complained in mid-May, the “macho” politics and stood out among his colleagues Michel Sapin ( on the eco-tax) and Arnaud Montebourg (on Alstom). “I’m too old to conflict,” she said today. Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, the first secretary of the PS, which has long fought, says: “She is careful to inform us, she calls it receives. “
A little more cautious but not chastened, however. Segolene Royal can both support a fellow minister struggling with a bad controversy and repeated his opposition to the tax hike of diesel, yet arbitrated at the top. Because she believes and because she thinks that is what is expected by the French. The Elysee there is nothing wrong. “Everyone takes it as it is. She has enormous strengths, so if it allows expressions not totally fitting it is not a drama, “ says an adviser to the president.
Minister know we called it because we needed it. In a “star of politics” which, sixty-one, a “kept his ability to speak to the popular classes” , says Emmanuel Riviere. And the director of the strategies of TNS Sofres opinion unit summarize: “In people’s minds, it’s antitechno. “ In an era when elites are readily challenged, it is an asset. Ségolène Royal and knows how to play. When she is sure to be in line with the French, you will not make him budge an idea, regardless of the technical objections. This precipitated the departure of the government of former Secretary of State for Transport Frédéric Cuvillier: “Certain statements put me cantilevered overhang on my records” , he said. It also gives much more weight and autonomy than its predecessors. The minister negotiated virtually conceded only amendments to the Greens on his bill energy transition. Request authorization? “I did not even ask the question, she said in a tone of the obvious. These amendments are good, so it’s good for the government. “
Segolene Royal does not let either bypass without reacting. She immediately informed the EDF CEO Henri Proglio, used to push all the doors of power, that ‘there is only one Department of Energy “:” It is here it happens and it’s up to me to make trade-offs. It was soon understood “, she glides. Suspended the decision of the Executive for its renewal (or not), the person did breathe a word
The Minister does not take orders from advisors of power -. “At first there were attempts of interference. “ It has also been able to ignore one of the men supremely Matignon who discouraged him to accept an invitation radio one morning. Then send him once his performance deemed successful, this SMS: “old who have experience, it can serve”
A touch of hand
When Ségolène Royal laughs at itself, there is often a point of contrast. In public, she can not pronounce his favorite expressions – “policy by the evidence,” “participatory democracy” – without a smile in his voice. Sometimes she adds: “You have seen, even Sarkozy rediscovered meetings participatory democracy …” In private, regret is this: “I have said for two years that there had too much in taxes, now they are down. If we had listened to me earlier … “ By heart, she recites this formula: ” denigrated, ridiculed and then recovered “. Then she continued in a curious mix of immodesty and sincerity: “I never thought I was clivante I thought I was anticipatory. “ Or: ” We had forgotten I could do. “
The head of state is included in the address, even if Ségolène Royal has words with regard to Hollande. Everyone knows she has direct access to the father of her children, no need to add more. The first, she countered a “is anything! “ the devastating formula” without teeth “attributed to the head of state by Valérie Trierweiler. It was political and personal. Emerging from a meeting with her in this period, Jean-Louis Borloo told relatives: “At home, the mother badly. “ Nevertheless, after years of fighting in the service of his own ambition, defeat, separation and even a foreclosure, Segolene Royal has actually put at the service of the president. As if the events had made him drop something. The Elysian ambitions, “is not (sound) timing” , has she assured loudly on France Inter on Sunday.
A form of relief
At the recent UN summit on climate change in New York, photographers have strafed by train conversation with Hollande. “Ban Ki-moon was late and the president left the podium to talk with Ségolène Royal and Laurent Fabius in the front row. The tone was friendly and playful, “ tells a member of the delegation. One way to erase another image, the president turning back for not meeting his ex-girlfriend in the corridors of the UN in 2012 a form of reparation. “But it did not peopolisation, it’s good” says Segolene Royal, laconic. After two years of political purgatory (following its defeat in the parliamentary La Rochelle), it is estimated to owe his return to the forefront but herself. Today the way is to turn the page count, as always, the context and its own resources: “From the time I go, it causes the government …”
This has always been his strength and weakness. His strength because “” is not formatable “, in the words of a close. And its weakness because the stewardship does not always follow. “She is very accessible, but his study is heterogeneous, it was crazy to do evil, we are sometimes taken aback” , complains the president of France Nature Environnement Denez The Hostis. And then, with a reduced budget and without own taxes, the penalty minister to convince when it ensures: “means, they will be there” . Nicolas Hulot does not say anything when he explains diplomatically: “It would make the job even better if supported by Michel Sapin and Manuel Valls. “ In other words: if ecology was brought together
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