Now I’m not saying that the aspiring first female French president, Segolene Royal, chose to be put in FHM’s ‘world’s sexiest women’ survey, but if that’s the department that the opinion polls are rating you in then there’s something wrong with your campaign. Royal is rated the sixth most sexiest woman FYI, and much is being made of the fact that she rated higher than “Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Hurley and Penelope Cruz and coming just two places behind Angelina Jolie” (SMH, 13/06/06 “Out of left field comes a French bombshell”). Well then, she’s definitely electable I’d say.
I’m not sure whether Royal approves of this kind of publicity, she did come out against Sloggi underwear ads in France depicting women wearing only g-strings, but that was way back in 2003.
I’m also wondering whether it’s some kind of conspiracy to discredit her. She has apparently ruffled some feathers inside her own party by suggesting that “unruly youth” be sent to boot camp and last week publicly wondered whether the 35-hour week was a good idea. However when you consider the following perhaps it’s not:
The French concern about Royal is not so much that her domestic circumstances [her de facto partner is the Socialist Party’s leader, Francois Hollande - himself a man of presidential ambition] might prove damaging, it’s that she might not be serious enough.
While political rivals and colleagues alike pride themselves on their appearances in the weighty newspapers, Royal’s elfin face is more often seen gazing from the front pages of popular rags.
When she finally confirmed her presidential ambitions in September last year, it was not in any of the doughty organs that might ordinarily befit a Socialist champion, but in Paris Match, the glossy high-circulation magazine whose slogan “The weight of words - the shock of photos!” might just as well apply to the lady herself.
Using trashy tabloids for a presidential campaign. Well, I’d hazard a guess that it’s never been done before. It might just work.
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