Report on the decentralised Council of Ministers in Strasbourg. Conversation in the TGV, between government members Roger KAROUTCHI, State Secretary for relations with the parliament, Christine BOUTIN, Minister of Housing and City, and Roselyne BACHELOT, Minister of Health, Youth and Sports, on rugby. Interviews in Strasbourg by Fadela AMARA, State Secretary for City Policy, on disadvantaged neighborhoods, by the Head of State, Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister François FILLON on this first decentralized council.
François Mitterrand’s position in the face of the Russian crisis (putsch and end of governance for Gorbachev) has shaken his mandate. The opposition finds itself in unison to affirm the end of the socialist era. It is a political comeback with electoral campaign areas. François LEOTARD sings in choir with a group of sympathizers the hit of the summer: "Father MITTERRAND we will beat him". Jacques CHIRAC at the tribune of the summer university of the RPR, in Cabourg: "the dynamism of the united opposition, its ability to assert itself as a power of alternation has an aged regime, weak, outdated...". Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, at the same forum: "the event that is shaking France today is the feeling that the socialist experiment is going towards its end...".
It is the political return with the first Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister, Jean-pierre RAFFARIN is already in a hurry on all sides, especially on economic and social decisions: 35H, SMIC. the unions and the Médef, currently in summer school, ask the government to respect the commitments made by the candidate Jacques Chirac. Ernest-Antoine SELLIERE, president of the medef "we have to remind him of the commitments made...and we need to relax the law of 35 hours" Philippe BOURGUIGNON, president of Club Med "many people want a change...it should not be too soft of the knee" Alain BRUNAUD, CEO Brunaud et fils, "il faut vite qu'il prendre une décision" The government wants to reassure itself. Patrick DEVEDJAN, minister for local freedoms "so far they have been kept the promises" Jean-PIerre RAFFARIN " there is a lot of work and serenity"
The defeat of Lionel Jospin against Jacques Chirac in the presidential elections is an impetus that aims to recast the PS, giving the floor to the voters. At the center of the debates, the mode of election of the future First Secretary. Ahead of Lice Lionel Jospin. Micropavement of activists all enthusiastic about the idea of an open debate. Interviews with Jean-Christophe CAMBADELIS who wants to give the floor back to the voters, and Jean-Luc MELENCHON who questions the principle of the "elected" political figure in favor of the political ideas themselves.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, four months after his defeat in the presidential elections, remains very present in the minds of right-wing supporters. He has the ability to tip the scales for the election of the presidency of the UMP. Jean-François COPE, and François FILLON are running for this position. The first confides that he is friends with the former president, and the second criticises this sudden closeness.
L'université d'été du RPR à La Baule est l'occasion de confirmer la popularité de Jacques Chirac malgé la défaite aux présidentielles de 1988. Le témoignage de plusieurs d'entre eux l'atteste : "je soutiens toujours Jacques Chirac...pour moi c'est le tête de file","Il faut voir ce qu'il a fait pendant deux ans c'est vraiment formidable".
Alain JUPPE, invite quant à lui les rénovateurs du parti à cesser de bouder : "cette démocratie interne a ses disciplines ; le dénigrement systématique du mouvement par voie de presse, ce n'est pas de la démocratie interne, c'est une série de coups bas portés à notre volonté de rénovation".
Difficult return for Marine LE PEN. After her failure in the presidential election, she returned to politics on a conquered land, in Brachay in the Haute Marne. He must reconnect with his supporters, all agreed to criticize her performance during the televised debate that oppressed him to Emmanuel Macron: "I wondered what she had Marine... I was disappointed". Internal disputes are another difficulty. Florian PHILIPPOT, Vice-President of the FN, confides that there is no crisis, even if the party is in refoundation, and "that we must go in the right direction".