If the President spoke a pause it is envisaged that at the end of 2011

The unusual magnitude of a victory or a defeat, as is the case with these regional elections, is a great temptation to in "surinterpréter" result. See abstentionism, a few percentages nearly as solid in the second to the first round, the expression of discontent promises, funny paradox, high future social mobilizations. Forgetting that the unions were no more successful than policies to provide evidence, in the most difficult months of crisis, their ability to put in motion their activists. The failure score gives the measure of a democratic languor disease which is after all a reflection of the economic, in which the financial tsunami come to America plunged the France, like the rest of Europe.

It would be just as excessive considering the defeat without a call for the presidential majority in the local voting as a precursor of what awaits him in 2012, at the end of the quinquennium of Nicolas Sarkozy. Many other examples have highlighted the decoupling between the two types of elections, starting with the triumph of the current President that occurred three years after the rout Chirac to the regional in 2004. But also the incredible elimination of Lionel Jospin in the first round of the presidential election of 2002, almost in the wake of the good of the Socialist lists for the 2001 municipal. A name shows only the limits of the exercise of extrapolation: Georges Frêche. The easy reelection of the histrion of Septimania to the Presidency of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon is at least as much a slap in the face for the national left as an act of defiance to the policies followed by the right. And we see not well for what the coefficient parochial, or even futile, would be so more important in the Languedoc vote that elsewhere. He just had the opportunity to express themselves in more caricatured manner.

For all these reasons, capitalizing on its beautiful spring surprise won't be easy for the Socialist Party, indisputable winner of these regional while the Alsatian failure in minore a little shine, with the "grand slam" awkwardly predicted by its first Secretary. Probably the victory strengthens the leadership of Martine Aubry on his restless party; It will also inevitably awaken the appetite of its présidentiables rivals, among them Ségolène Royal, brilliantly renewed in Poitou-Charentes. The local barons of the PS have check once more that it is possible to grow and prosper in the ballot box, even when their training is permanently removed from power. A report that does not necessarily incentive to be the minimum necessary for the reconquest of the collective discipline. The great challenge of the Solferino Street, now, is to create a program that is not just to the antisarkozysme. A current more carrier for the FN vote, again taking to the orbit of an alternative development.

Recessive impact of 2009 returned a kick of youth to social democratic creed which is the State's large economy skids damper. This saddle of his old doctrinal substance rehabilitation does not exempt the left-wing Government to say how it has, with a growth that appears for a long time weakened, ensure the financing of a welfare State in the process of suffocation. At the time of the Popular Front, Paul Reynaud had issued to Léon Blum: "He cannot be happy working class in a ruined country." The Greek crisis came to remind the European views that objection can become again at any time of the day, and that it is this time directly the whole of the middle classes. These last are beginning to put at the top of their priorities the re-establishment of finance public, aware that the deficits of today are violations of the standard of living for tomorrow.

This new element can not be more ignored by the majority camp at the time when he prepares to discuss the impact of the electoral setback on Sunday on its reform strategy. Nicolas Sarkozy has warned since the eve of the first round: reforms will continue. If the President spoke a "pause", it is envisaged that at the end of 2011. At the opening of the presidential campaign, paralyzing anyway the action of the Executive. The subject is therefore less whether or not he is reforming but how, and at what pace.

The multitude of sites open since 2007 has created discontent inevitably although it should be noted, social conflict remained for three years at an exceptionally low level to the national "standard". Stagnation would have many consequences even more pernicious on French, all the polls say, tend to see the future as a threat. "Good" reforms are those that reconcile the need for action with a long-term vision. From this point of view, the iconic record of pensions is the ideal opportunity to move on to practical work.