Posted on 05/01/2007 11:13:19 PM PDT by Cincinna
No matter who wins the presidency of France on May 6, life in the grand, presidential Élysée Palace is destined to change.
There is no future for the role of dutiful partner filled for the past dozen years by Bernadette Chirac, who as first lady has run charities, held dinners and served as a local official in the farming town of Corrèze.
Both presidential candidates are members of unconventional couples.
Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party candidate, is not married to the father of her four children, François Hollande. But more than that, they are potential political rivals. As head of the Socialist Party, he was nearly the candidate himself, and he says he will try to run in 2012 if Royal loses this time.
"Certainly, without doubt," he said Wednesday in an interview on a train from Paris to Nantes. "It's also a competition between us."
He added that even if Royal won the election, he would not be joining her in the Élysée for her five-year term.
"I am not the one who is going to be elected," he said. "If Ségolène Royal wins, my situation doesn't change. It is Ségolène Royal who has a great responsibility and has to decide what is the best way of exercising it - including where she lives."
This is not Bill-and-Hillary in 1992, when Bill Clinton told the American people they would be getting "two for the price of one," pledging that Hillary Clinton would be a full-time policymaking partner, and perhaps even a cabinet member, in his presidency.
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Here’s hoping and praying that the Elysee Palace is not disgraced by the astral twins of the Arkansas Grifters.
Hillary and her HINO?
Sego and her (not) HINO?
JUST SAY “NO”
Sounds like a cold, dead fish to me.
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