Saturday and Monday it was expected to speak more before

Nicolas Sarkozy luridus, face closed yesterday on the banks of the Assembly; relatives faced a visible buzz, or even divided on the strategy to be followed: the part that the President of the UMP is playing in the case of the SCE is extremely delicate. Ostensibly take his distances with Dominique de Villepin, and a fortiori that he left as soon as the Government now, he will give sense to abandon the ship in a snowstorm, and act for personal reasons. Who could believe her sincerity if he had to challenge a CEP significantly less bold than the single contract (a five-year contract that puts an end to the Commission) that he advocates in his presidential project for 2007 What interest would have to appear as one giving trade unions and the left, he would herald the resoluteness and courage in politics As the elected UMP are unanimous on one point: the electorate is not that the majority gives the sense of surrender to the street.

These risks, Nicolas Sarkozy the measure, which explains the extreme caution to distance of Dominique de Villepin making operation that it has launched. In his interview to "Paris-Match", he says that he will not leave the Government because "it cannot possibly leave it on a disagreement of substance". If his relatives often do step to take red ball against the CPE and against the method, he simply put in the position of one who offers solutions to break the deadlock. And he gradually. No word that get angry in "Paris-Match": he points out that the "Government attempts in good faith to resolve the endemic problem of youth unemployment". While his relatives reported that suggested to the Prime Minister, on Sunday night, "suspend" the SCE time together a round table on youth and employment contracts, himself not was still previously publicly. "Paris-Match", proposes an experiment of the contract for six months. Saturday and Monday, it was expected to speak more before. "To be supportive but different", summarizes in the interview.

Nothing to gain

Is this balance tenable In any case, the members of the majority, are not fooled: the war between the two men is beautiful and well launched and opens much earlier than what is Nicolas Sarkozy would have liked. Even if he wants to put the forms, the President of the UMP seems convinced that he can no longer observe nothing say the arms of iron between the Prime Minister and the trade unions. First, because as Minister of the Interior, it risk large, fears a blunder, and even a revival of the suburbs. Above all, because it is convinced that the true battle that leads Dominique de Villepin is not against the left, but against his opinion of right. If it continues to bind his fate to that of the Prime Minister, he has nothing to win, say relatives: "Villepin is doing, if he reported the last;" If he dives, diving with him. "The only solution is to mark its difference, in an attempt to embody a track right also ambitious in its goals, but more"tuned", and ultimately more effective in its method. Remains that the path is extremely tenuous that it does not appear as a "release" of the Prime Minister... that the relatives of the latter flocked to denounce yesterday.