Sego
She is almost unstoppable as the socialist candidate for President. According to Wikipedia (the nutshell summaries are mine):
A poll taken on August 29 and 30 shows that 47% of respondents prefer her as the Socialist Party candidate. Although this marks a slight decline from polls a week earlier she maintains a strong lead over all other candidates. Her closest competitor, Lionel Jospin (loser, incompetent, dreary) receives 21%, Dominique Straus-Kahn 16% (wide boy, economics professor, best of the rest), Jack Lang 12% (lunatic former culture minister, weirdo), Laurent Fabius 9% (Rainbow Warrior bomber, cynical untrustworthy looks like he has closet sexual confusion) and François Hollande 8% (dull, like hospital paint is dull. Politically flabby. Party leader).
Sarkozy has wrapped up the centre right. The Sego-Sarko scrap is underway.
And I hadn't expected to say this - but they are both looking talented and appealing about now.
Some facts I didn't know about Mme Royal:
She was born in Senegal.
Her first name is Marie (how did she get away with dropping that in the French school system?)
She was a judge before she entered politics.
Some I did know:
She went to the school you have to go to if you want to be anyone in the French bureaucracy.
Her partner is dreary fat boy Francois Hollande, who happens to be the leader of the socialist party. They are not married, though they have formalised a civil union.
Over summer she was photographed in a fetching bikini. Hollande is a rival for the Presidency nomination (bet those are interesting chit chats...'hey honey, what do you think about booking our holidays for November. You fly out first and I'll come down later with the kids). He was photographed reading 'French history for dummies'. This is when you fire your press secretary.