Valérie Trierweiler should ‘keep to her place’, says French prime minister

In more embarrassment for Mr Hollande, a poll released today forecast Mr
Falorni – who was expelled from the Socialist Party for refusing to stand
down – will trounce Miss Royal by 58 per cent to 42 per cent on Sunday.
While she narrowly came top in the first round, supporters of the local
ousted Right-wing UMP candidate appear to be heeding his call to vote for “anyone
but Royal”.

Despite the growing political storm, Miss Trierweiler yesterday refused to
apologise for the Tweet, saying it was “idiotic” to suggest she
had acted out of jealousy of her boyfriend’s former lover of 30 years.

“To speak of jealousy in this business is idiotic,” she told RTL
radio.

“I see no mixing of public and private lives here. Things should be put
back into perspective. Everything has got out of all proportion.”

She added that it was “unfair” to castigate her for backing Miss
Royal’s rival as he was “one of François Hollande’s oldest and
staunchest supporters”.

Her Elysée adviser argued that former First Lady Danièle Mitterrand had
publicly taken up different views to her Socialist husband François.

According to Le Parisien, President Hollande was furious at his girlfriend
meddling in an electoral campaign in which his party is heading for a
majority.

“The president was very angry,” one Elysée aide said. “He
took it really badly. He’s a shy man. She overstepped the mark. This risks
tainting his image.”

Promising France a “normal” presidency, Mr Hollande has not put a
foot wrong since his May election against Right-wing incumbent Nicolas
Sarkozy, whom he repeatedly criticised for blurring the lines between his
public and family life.

But his girlfriend has been accused of returning France to the worst days of
the Sarkozy era.

“We often said between ourselves that Valérie’s attitude could be a
problem for François, but we didn’t get involved,” one unnamed
Socialist minister told Le Monde. “Who now among us will dare intervene
and tell François how it is?,” asked the minister.

Eric Ciotti of the centre-Right UMP said: “This affair makes a mockery of
our country and of our head of state. It is a grotesque, ridiculous
situation that weakens (his) position.”

While some Socialists insisted that Miss Trierweiler, a journalist with
magazine Paris Match, made the remark in a personal capacity, former UMP
minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said her behaviour was causing “confusion”
and that her role should be clarified.

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