It's my left side pleasant Nicolas Sarkozy

Eighteen thematic conventions held for two years; some 750 specialists, researchers and intellectuals are expressed; a consulting firm sought to understand the expectation of the "undecided"; a consultation direct Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed, on behalf of the "break", that the legislative project that his party will defend in 2007 is prepared like no other before. In fact, the text to be submitted Thursday to the executives of the UMP in the national Council in Paris, like no other. Not long reflections on the macroeconomic equilibria: the UMP is part of the practical concerns of the French, hence the place major she gives the power to purchase. Don't ideological prohibited, text borrowed from liberal classics while looting merrily in the Socialist project. "Our old grids of reading were outdated," explained yesterday François Fillon, who has led the project with Emmanuelle Mignon, Director of studies: "He had to build something else."

Restore air

Many measures respond to the desire to give back to the French "the choice of driving their own destiny" and restore air economy: overtime without charges or taxes, social minima conditioned activity or training, the minimum service in transportation, the opening of shops on Sunday, a new contract of employment... Others, conversely, within the voluntarism of State Nicolas Sarkozy gave a few examples when he was Minister for the economy, with inspirations clearly from left: the Cambridge tax applied to goods from polluting countries, part of public procurement for SMEs, the introduction of enforceable rights for child care and access of persons with disabilities to services public (housing was finally not accepted)relief of loads limited to companies that, despite their good results, increase not enough wages, compulsory civilian service. "It's my left side", pleasant Nicolas Sarkozy.

The risk of a text picks up everything

All is not without skill, since it allows the project to show a true political voluntarism that this leads to break the French social model. But this strength is also its weakness, since it could not really meet anyone, as evidenced by the tensions which have shaken the party these days. The list of the 30 most important proposals, which worked the UMP, should it be permanently stopped when the national Council ("Les Echos" from November 10). The Liberals do not hide their dissatisfaction: because, if the project is ambitious on some points control deficits, working time, University he shows, according to them, too cautious on others to which are attached the electorate the State reform and taxation. As the questioning, they are concerned the institutional aspect, even if it has been toned down a President of the Republic "more engaged in the conduct of reforms. Some denounce "social package" of some liberal measures, other "concessions to political correctness."

The other risk is to provide the image of a large text picks up everything, from which it is difficult to identify a clear and resulting message. But this risk, Nicolas Sarkozy wants the take, believing that it is to him, more late in the campaign, and with his presidential project, it will be to identify the lines of force. In the immediate future, time and the need are, according to him, the "gathering" of his political family.