A "campaign of proximity" closer to the "suffering". After a series of movements in the rural territories, Dominique de Villepin returns today in the suburbs: in the District of Val-thicket, Mantes, where it must meet with police, young entrepreneurs and the Rector of the mosque. The place is symbolic as it is in this still sensitive area of the Yvelines that had erupted in violent riots in 1991. The time is also, a week after the call to mobilization for the difficult suburbs launched by some 40 mayors, most of opposition. "It takes a look condescending on the suburbs." "It underestimates the enormous energy that exists in these neighbourhoods," regretted yesterday, on Canal , the former Prime Minister, who already visited in November to Draveil (Essonne) and January Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis).
These shifts, at a rate of one or two per month, are the last head of Jacques Chirac's Government the way to soak the field and correct his own image, while it is never rubbed by universal suffrage. And, in passing, to mark its difference with Nicolas Sarkozy, charged with caring for the suburbs "of how very limited and very timely", on security, but by "the impasse" social. "42 of youth in the suburbs have no job." "There is a problem that must be looking in the face and need to deal with," said Dominique de Villepin yesterday.

"A work of Ant".
For him, the month of June looks particularly important. It is June 19, in the aftermath of the 70eanniversaire of the appeal of General de Gaulle, he launched his political movement. The opportunity to take a new impetus for little that the material and financial means to operate. Because, since that he is out of the wood, the Gaullist did not rallying of weight, any more than it has managed to break into the polls. Its rating for the future has lost 2 points in a month, to 29 in the TNS Sofres barometer. And voting in its favour intentions have eroded since the fall, from 8 to 6 or 7 according to the institutes. "It is not nothing, but it feels not dynamic." "However, in politics, if you move not backing", analysis Jérôme Fourquet, the Deputy Director of the opinion of the FIFG Department.
More serious, the period only appears scarcely favourable. Nicolas Sarkozy (who hopes to cut the grass under the foot travelling to London for the appeal of June 18, a first for a French President) slightly straightens the head in the polls. The first Secretary of the PS, Martine Aubry, wake up the left-right confrontation. As the patron of the Modem, François Bayrou, he again heard, on the theme, dear to the centrists of the fight against deficits. The electorate of Dominique de Villepin, which recruits in the ranks of the Socialist Party and the Modem to the UMP, seems very friable. "The function of criticism of the sarkozysme him is contested," notes Jérôme Fourquet. Just as his "gathering" repeated appeals, already launched by François Bayrou.
Supporters of former Prime Minister, they say they are "serene". "". There is a large gap between what the polls say and what you feel on the ground. "And here, the dynamic is great," ensures Brigitte Girardin, President and linchpin of the current Club Villepin, claiming "about 15,000 members. Is three times more than seven months ago. Jean-Pierre Grand, Member of the Hérault, responsible for the territorial mesh of the club villepiniste, ensures that will this "work of Ant, which is not spectacular, bear its fruit". It remains to be Dominique de Villepin a little less than two years before the presidential election.