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The Socialist party presidential primary of 2006 was the selection process by which members of the Socialist Party of France chose their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In a nationwide vote on 16 November 2006 members of the party chose Ségolène Royal over Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius making Royal the first female nominee of a major party for the office of President of France.