Never before have we, the French public, been privy to intimate scenes taking place in the bathroom of the Elysees Palace and the very bedroom of our president. With the latest polls showing Hollande stuck with a staggeringly low approval rating of 13 percent, respect for the president is in freefall.
Trierweiler wanted to settle accounts with her ex-lover, and she certainly scored on this point, but in the process, she also damaged French democracy.
*Agnes Poirier is the UK editor for the French political weekly MARIANNE, and a political commentator for the British, American, Canadian, French and Italian press, and a regular contributor to the BBC, Sky News, and Al Jazeera. She is the author of ‘Touche, A French woman’s take on the English’
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