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...first round of voting on Thursday, Royal finished first with 43%, versus 34% for Aubry and 23% for Benoît Hamon, a candidate from the party's left flank. Hamon then threw his support behind Aubry for tonight's runoff. That suggests an Aubry victory, but the polarizing powers of both women make predicting the outcome difficult. "Because of that - and because the outcome will be close to 50-50 - I believe the eventual winner will have an extremely difficult time unifying and leading what is an extremely riven Socialist Party," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center...
While the policy objectives of the two candidates are not that different, there are points of major contention. One major clash is strategic: Royal calls for a partnership with centrists to recapture national power, while Aubry rejects that in favor of an opposite lean to hook up with Green, Communist and other leftist parties. The more explosive rub involves style. Aubry is staid and wonky, and she prefers more orthodox-sounding leftist pronouncements. Royal has a high-profile-celebrity quotient and a highly personalized communication style focused on modernity and change, frequently featuring frontal attacks on Sarkozy...
...Competent, determined and conviction-founded, Martine Aubry represents Socialist continuity and an attachment to the classic left; unpredictable, modern, telegenic, Ségolène Royal is the TV Madonna gifted with an iron will and whirring pragmatism," wrote daily Libération editor Laurent Joffrin in his Op-Ed Friday. "Martine Aubry wants to safeguard the homestead, while Ségolène Royal chases adventure," Joffrin continued, noting that in the absence of any major ideological gulf between the two reform-minded women, "there is an incontestable opposition of style...
...Royal, meanwhile, made her main entry into politics as an adviser to the late President François Mitterrand and later held cabinet positions in government where she drew attention by working during her pregnancy - and unapologetically defending family and education positions normally associated with conservatives. Following her presidential defeat, Royal stunned many observers by publicly dumping Socialist Party leader François Hollande - her companion and the father of her four children - and announcing she'd seek his post during the current election. To some, that made Royal the symbol of the strong, modern woman in politics; to others...
...this week's summit of Tibetan exiles, Thondop, a member of Tibet's "royal family", as one young admirer described him, has become a symbol of a generational shift among Tibetans toward support of a free Tibet. "He was there in the beginning," says Tenzin Tsundu, a pro-independence activist. "To hear his voice say that, it's a very emotional thing...