This would be a little double punishment it glides

It is a slashed banner of the words "Insults", "Contempt" and "dead 150,000" held by five supporters of Ségolène Royal awaiting the entry of a meat packing plant, the arrival of Dominique Bussereau. A week earlier, the UMP candidate for the regional in Poitou-Charentes had to apologize for having assimilated to "harkis" Modem defectors acceded to the President of region, but the Socialist militants do not want to let forget this skid. The Secretary of State for transport quietly engage discussion and recognizes said "a garbage". But when an activist PS to get excited, he introduces names of birds, reply fuse: "I'm still waiting that Ségolène Royal condemned Georges Frêche.". The bites occurred last Thursday in Confolens (Charente) is the image of a tense regional campaign where the two camps collide kicked statements shocks - reference to Nazism was launched share and else - and excuse requests. A voltage to the extent of the attention paid to this area.

With Ségolène Royal who has need of a resounding re-election to bounce, Nicolas Sarkozy wants that his camp saves the honour and carries out a better score than in 2004 (32.9 in the first round and 36.2 in the second). Polls give him time less than 30 in the first round and 43 for face-to-face with the outgoing President for the second. Dominique Bussereau adds personal codicil: get a good result in the Department over which he presides since 2008, Charente-Maritime, and which alone accounts for 42 of the electorate. Its mission is not to win but to resist. Long, Secretary of State sought to dodge this struggle determined kamikaze the UMP. But finally had to pull to the will of the head of State.

Dominique Bussereau has an imperative (mobilize its camp), a potential asset (the FN recession could avoid a triangular in the second round) and hope: that "a part of the left taunted by the personal and Ms. Royal authoritarian methods" refrain.

To ensure the support of right-wing voters, he has continued mill and homes visits, meetings with intermediate body, the townships meetings and steps in the farm. To avoid the acrimony of the supporters of left, it complements each criticism against his opponent for a refrain: "the problem of Ms. Royal is not that it is Socialist, it is his character. Conversely, he on his profile to land at round ways elected, is presented in "child of the country" and makes reference to his departmental route to show his knowledge of the records. "I do not honks, people know. Ségolène Royal, she failed to drive the nail as "outworn Elysée Envoy".

Between the two candidates, the campaign has from the outset turned to vinegar. If Dominique Bussereau denounced a "gadget"check"and wants to focus the community on its skills, starting with large rail infrastructure, it targets mainly the Socialist elected governance and"confiscation"of the region"to the only service of a personal ambition. " He intends to spread doubt left, but he also takes the risk of "victimise" Ségolène Royal, who loves nothing as long as this. To counter this effect there, Secretary of State attached to play down the issue for him, to the vote. He said "zen", provided at the bottom after he asked to go to the front, Nicolas Sarkozy cannot make him pay a underperformance. "This would be a little double punishment", it glides.