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Segolene Royal

Ségolène Royal
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Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
Assumed office
2 April 2014
Prime Minister Manuel Valls
Bernard Cazeneuve
Preceded by Philippe Martin
President of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes
In office
30 March 2004 – 21 April 2014
Preceded by Élisabeth Morin
Succeeded by Jean-François Macaire
Minister of the Environment and Way of Life
In office
2 April 1992 – 29 March 1993
Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy
Preceded by Brice Lalonde
Succeeded by Michel Barnier
Deputy of the National Assembly
for Deux-Sèvres' 2nd constituency
In office
19 June 2002 – 19 June 2007
Preceded by Jean-Pierre Marché
Succeeded by Delphine Batho
In office
2 April 1993 – 4 July 1997
Preceded by Jean-Pierre Marché
Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Marché
In office
23 June 1988 – 2 May 1992
Preceded by Proportional representation
Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Marché
Personal details
Born Marie-Ségolène Royal
(1953-09-22) 22 September 1953 (age 63)
Dakar, French West Africa
(now Senegal)
Political party Socialist Party
Domestic partner François Hollande (1978–2007)
Children 4
Alma mater Nancy 2 University
Institut d'études politiques, Paris
École nationale d'administration, Strasbourg
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Marie-Ségolène Royal, known as Ségolène Royal (pronounced: [se.ɡɔ.lɛn ʁwa.jal]; born 22 September 1953), is a French politician and prominent member of the Socialist Party.

She was President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 2014. She was the Socialist candidate in the 2007 presidential election, becoming the first woman in France to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major party. She lost to Nicolas Sarkozy.

In 2008, Royal narrowly lost to Martine Aubry in the Socialist Party's election for First Secretary at the Party's twenty-second national congress. Candidate for the PS nomination for President in 2012, she lost the Socialist Party presidential primary in 2011. She failed in her attempt to win a seat in the National Assembly in the June 2012 parliamentary elections.

François Hollande, the current President of France, is the father of her four children. She was appointed by him to the vice-Chair directorship of the Banque Publique d'Investissement (BPI) in 2013. She has served as Minister for Ecology since 2014, in the Valls then Cazeneuve cabinets.

Ségolène Royal was born in the military base of Ouakam, Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal) on 22 September 1953, the daughter of Hélène Dehaye and Jacques Royal, a former artillery officer and aide to the mayor of Chamagne (Vosges).


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