Yes, I think the big unspoken fact here is that Royal is Hollande’s sock puppet, because he is too toxic even for French voters.
Good point.
This is a Clinton-like situation. He is the brains and political dynamo. The Socialist Party, of which he is the head honcho, wanted to run himself, but they all felt a woman would have a better chance. He put in his “sock puppet” as a gimmick. The whole thing backfired.
In the beginning women went crazy for Sego, then they started to realize that yes, she was a woman, but incompetent, vapid,tied to the past and not of the level required to lead a great country.