We want to offer a Republican alternative

A long standing ovation, a political club, ready to do battle, and a determined Dominique de Villepin. Those who, in the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy, if inquiètaient already of a possible candidacy in 2012 of the former head of the Government, will not was reassured by the evening of yesterday. Barely completed the Clearstream trial hearings, last Prime Minister Jacques Chirac brought nearly a thousand of his supporters in the House of Latin America in Paris. Objective: show that he is not alone, still less dead, and that his appearance before justice was already closed parenthesis.

Accused by the Minister of the stimulus, Patrick Devedjian, want to "interfere in the deliberations" of justice, Dominique de Villepin is a not une once referred to the case in his speech, preferring to turn resolutely towards the future. " "We want to offer a Republican alternative (...)". "laissez-faire and the neglect", he said, insisting on "values" that animate it. How to date for the next presidential.

Taxation "more intelligent".

The watchwords of his intervention, Dominique de Villepin them were weighed and weighed with his lieutenants: "courage;" burst; responsibility; spirit of mission; "gathering"... "We are the activists of the Republic," insisted the MP Jean-Pierre great, faithful among the faithful. Former Prime Minister, who said Friday keep "open hand" against Nicolas Sarkozy, certainly not cited the head of State, but it did not quite harsh words to castigate its "excesses". "No there is not need major debates on the Republic on national identity." "However, it is necessary to support the principles that are ours", he told to "not give tomorrow what should be done today." Same tone when he pinned "the concentration of power", advocated "the spirit of justice", wanted "more just, more intelligent, more efficient" taxes and said he wanted to a France "without rules and without glass ceiling", which "inside out" instead of "stigmatizing".

Dominique de Villepin dream to be an alternative in 2012, if he thinks having a political space. François Bayrou has slid to the left. Jean-François Copé and Xavier Bertrand are positioned on 2017. As Nicolas Sarkozy, he convinced not all voters. A LH2 survey published this week, 19 of the French who voted for him in the first round in 2007 is the referaient not today. In remaining civil party in the Clearstream, in confusing trial prevented and convicted, the head of State seems to have deepened the stature of his rival opponent. The question "of the two figures, which do you prefer", asked by the FIFG, 47 of the interviewees respond Villepin and 44 Sarkozy.

Sword of Damocles

But more than two years of the presidential election, former Prime Minister has no lack of disability. In September, according to BVA, 56 of the French refused to see a political future. It is never rubbed by popular suffrage. The party apparatus he escapes. And, especially, the Clearstream case still a sword of Damocles. Although he was cleared by the Court late January (the Prosecutor's Office has required against her 18-month suspended prison sentence), counsel for Nicolas Sarkozy could be tempted to extend the part using. To reduce nuisance capacity. "Four points less, this is sufficient to lose", a heavy weight of the Government concerned. Some villepinistes to admit "perplexed": "If it is to lose its camp, the Rubicon is difficult to cross..." the former Minister François Goulard, he did not state of soul, which, waving the red cloth, justice a likely nomination: "We are not going on the Rubicon for angling."