Genuine question
Do you think even 20 years ago the public would be happy to have someone who left his wife and kids for another woman as PM?
It doesn't personally bother me, though I don't have a lot of time for people who have multiple affairs, but it's interesting how views have changed over a short time.
I remember discussing this subject with two sets of my French relatives, one bunch from the north, around Lens, and another bunch from the south, in the Toulouse area, while we were at a family wedding in Daumeray, Maine-et-Loire a few years ago.
It started off with with the long running rumour that another cousin from the English side of the family was at it with his daughter’s teacher, and whether it was okay to accept this.
One of the guys from Lens said, “It wasn’t that long ago that Mitterrand had to confess that he had a daughter, Mazirine, from a long term affair with Mme. Pingeot, when he’d been married for years.”
“Yes”, said one of the southerners, “and he could be trusted to do the right thing for La République.”
Someone chipped in with, “How about Hollande? he did his best for the country, he got a couple of things wrong, but he pulled our troops out of Afghanistan and there wasn’t a Frenchman alive who didn’t secretly applaud his long running relationship (while married), with Ségolène Royal, with whom he had four children, then he trumped that by getting caught being chauffeured across Paris on a scooter for trysts with the beautiful Julie Gayet, he should have got a second Légion d’Honneur for that.”
In the light of that, Bojo seems a rank amateur in the affair stakes.
