Ségolène Royal

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Ségolène Royal (born Marie-Ségolène Royal, French pronunciation: [maʁi seɡɔlɛn ʁwajal] ; 22 September 1953) is a French politician and member of the Socialist Party. Royal represented Deux-Sèvres's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1988 to 2007 and was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 2014. She won the 2006 Socialist Party primary ahead of the 2007 French presidential election, becoming the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major party in France. In the subsequent presidential election, she earned further distinction as the first woman to qualify for the second round of a French presidential election, but ultimately 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. She lost the Socialist Party presidential primary in 2011, and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the National Assembly in the 2012 legislative...

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