I blogged about this a while ago when the buzz was going around. Now it's confirmed -- openly gay Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe, of France's faltering Socialist party, will seek his party's nomination for the 2012 presidential election.

The party has been in disarray since Segolene Royal was beaten by Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency in May 2007 and the party has failed to mount an effective opposition.

Party members are due to choose a new leader in November and Royal already has said she would seek to renew her leadership.

Delanoe’s declaration in an interview with Le Monde newspaper puts to rest months of speculation.

[via 365gay.com]

Segolene Royal no doubt won't give up without a fight. But doesn't she know that upwardly-mobile gay mayors seem to be the "in" thing these days?

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