website predecessor successor birth_place president party office primeminister birth_date term_start signature birthname image article_title term_end name partner alma_mater
-lsb- https://www.facebook.com/segoleneroyal official facebook -rsb- philippe marché '' proportional representation '' martin Élisabeth morin brice lalonde jean-pierre marché jean-pierre michel barnier delphine batho jean-pierre marché jean-pierre marché dakar , french west africa -lrb- now senegal -rrb- françois hollande françois mitterrand socialist party minister of the regional council of poitou-charentes minister of the environment of and way of life deputy of the national assembly for ecology deux-sèvres ' 2nd constituency , sustainable development and energy president manuel valls pierre bérégovoy 22 september 1953 2 19 june 2002 2 april 1993 23 june 1988 april 2014 30 march 2004 2 april 1992 segolene royal signature . . jpg marie-ségolène royal fête najat belkacem by mikani-crop . jpg de la fraternité 2009 - ségolène royal et ségolène royal
 29 2 may 1992 march 1993 19 june 2007 4 july 1997 ségolène royal françois hollande -lrb- 1978 -- 2007 -rrb- nancy nationale d'administration , strasbourg 2 university institut d'études politiques , paris École
ségolène royal

marie-ségolène royal -lrb- ; born 22 september 1953 -rrb- , known as ségolène royal , is a french politician .
a prominent member of the french socialist party , she was the socialist candidate in the 2007 presidential election , but lost to nicolas sarkozy .
she was the first woman in france to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major party .
she has served as minister for ecology , sustainable development and energy in the valls cabinet since 2014 and has been president of the poitou-charentes regional council since 2004 .
in 2008 , royal narrowly lost to martine aubry in the socialist party 's election for first secretary at the party 's twenty-second national congress .
on 30 november 2010 , royal announced her intentions to again seek the ps nomination for president in 2012 but she lost the socialist party presidential primary in 2011 .
she failed in her attempt to win a seat in the national assembly in the june 2012 parliamentary elections .
françois hollande , the current president of france , is the father of her four children .
she was appointed by him to the vice-chair directorship of the banque publique d'investissement , from which position she stated that the `` bpi 's purpose is not to do business nor to make profits '' .
