It allowed him to orchestrate the return of the France in Europe

Nicolas Sarkozy will tomorrow give top UMP national Council left the campaign for regional elections, that no one is as surprised (see page 2). The President of the Republic had no reluctance - gaulliennes - its predecessors to find themselves in a partisan Chamber. It is policy to the end of the nail and claims as such, without false shame or modesty, convinced that he was just elected to do this, to restore the primacy of politics in a France won by technical and administrative logics and led to stagnation.

Rehabilitation policy, This absolute faith in the existence of a political lever on the course of things has been for much of his election to the Presidency, in the success of the first month and the hypnosis of the opposition. It allowed him to orchestrate "the return of the France in Europe." It allowed him to lift taboos and to engage in an important round of reforms, and then to be the first leader to endorse an armor of combatant in the financial and economic crisis. After years of somewhat cynical resignation, the French were in need of a "yes, we can" mobilizer: Nicolas Sarkozy the gave them.

And even beyond what they anticipated. Because herein lies much of the current misunderstanding between the head of State and the opinion. If the French needed to believe in their leaders and their ability to act, they were not necessarily departing for a mode of operation solely based on political considerations. To be always in advance of reform but be prepared to all compromise to the conclusion, respond to a challenge by the opening of a new site with always in mind the desire to surprise, never losing sight of his political opponents with the eye bolted on the next electoral vote: If you look at the major decisions taken over the past year, they all have a political driving force. The removal of the investigating judge He was hit hard on societal issues while the Government was back on the reform of high school. The establishment down carbon tax countdown promises to lower de de carbone carbone Before the delicate regional March, need to try to break this electoral reflex who wants that ecologists refer systematically to the left in the second round of an election. The launch of a large loan to finance the expenses for the future Or out of the crisis in the short term, the Elysee Palace intended to continue to be in charge of the national economic debate. And it is not the return suddenly to issues of security and national identity which market the impression of an appeal to the political "recipes" to get out of the controversies that confuse the electorate traditional (Frédéric Mitterrand, Jean Sarkozy...).

For the moment, this compass has always allowed to Nicolas Sarkozy to overcome the difficulties and to resume the air in the polls, the Ministry of the Interior, Bercy in the Elysee Palace. But mid-term, several signals suggest that the system is more effective or less adapted to the situation.

How the France prepares for the post-crisis For the moment, the answer is the weakest, despite the chorus fillonniste on public deficits. Same Edouard Balladur, remained very close to Nicolas Sarkozy, has suggested that he lacked "clear vision" in the country for months to come (Public-Senate, 21 October). The political response is always immediate, the economic response takes time. The policy response request for boldness, the second reasoning and coherence. In the emergency crisis, the head of State had known climb to the niche; in this long period of convalescence, it seems more force, occupied in the immediate future to identify the great decided to way borrowing "political" in June. More worrying still, these signs of a break with the view: falling in the polls of course (around 35 of positive opinions), but also this great doubt that have long had the French on the vaccination against influenza A, or even these misgivings raised by the panthéonisation of Albert Camus. As if now, the French had difficulty in believing in public speaking, that they considered it too "political" to be really sincere.