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June 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The rivalry between the two women has long been a subject of speculation.
Hollande stood loyally by Royal as she battled right wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency in the 2007 race, but he had reportedly been in a relationship since 2005 with Trierweiler, a twice-divorced 47-year-old mother of three.
Hollande’s opponents jumped on Trierweiler’s tweet as an inappropriate intrusion of Hollande’s social life onto the political scene.
The right wing UMP party of ex-president Sarkozy, whom Hollande defeated in last month’s presidential run-off election, is anxious to score points against the Socialists ahead of Sunday’s second-round parliamentary vote.
After coming out on top in last Sunday’s first round, the Socialists and their allies are expected to win the clear majority Hollande needs to push through his left wing programme.
“This affair makes a mockery of our country and of our head of state,” Eric Ciotti of the UMP told France Inter radio. “It is a grotesque, ridiculous situation that weakens the position of the head of state.”
Some Socialists have sought to defuse the crisis by insisting that Trierweiler, a journalist with magazine Paris Match, made the remark in a personal capacity.
But former UMP minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said Trierweiler’s unofficial status was causing “confusion” and that her role should be clarified.
Others called for a new law on the role of first lady, which is not defined by the French constitution.
UMP leader Jean-Francois Cope meanwhile said the scandal was a “lightweight” distraction that had no place in an election campaign.
“You realise that there is a major parliamentary election taking place during a crisis – hold on!” he told France 2 television.
“Italy is practically bankrupt, Spain has a 100-billion-euro bail-out for its banks, there is a crisis that Francois Hollande is not talking about – and we are asked to comment on something that is, I’m sorry, not up to the standard.”
The Socialists and other left wing parties won about 46 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s first round, ahead of the UMP and its allies with 34 per cent, official results showed.
Pollsters say the results indicate the Socialists will take between 283 and 329 seats in this Sunday’s second round. The party needs 289 seats to form a majority on its own in the 577-seat National Assembly.
With the 10 to 15 seats expected to go to the Greens, who are close allies of the Socialists and already in government, Hollande is all but certain to enjoy a majority unless the right can turn the trend around.
Source: AFP
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