Opinion followed and the barons of PS with

In a year, the political landscape considerably thinned for the presidential election. Right, Dominique de Villepin, who thought it could compete seriously with Nicolas Sarkozy, has lost much of its credit in a few months, with the crisis of the CPE and then l'affaire Clearstream. And the party socialist, Ségolène Royal imposed a record speed, passing the precarious status of person among many others in the popular candidate (60.6 of members voted for it), first French women to represent a party of Government to the Supreme election. To conquer a party still traumatized by April 21, 2002 and hosted primarily by the desire to win, it relied primarily on his popularity, another first. In response to the political crisis, it has been the "participatory democracy". Surfing the desire for change of voters from the left after a year 2005 marked by the fracture on the European Constitution, it has continued to grow its difference: the constant recall of the identity of wife and mother to his little taste posted for discussion of the PS, passing by its iconoclastic statements (on security, the 35-hour)(, school map). Without never renouncing his words, it has several times corrected their content. Opinion followed, and the barons of PS with... forgetting Lionel Jospin, whose return to the arena (in September) lasted a month, and pushing the first Secretary, Francois Hollande, who had also renounce to his companion.

After the withdrawal of Jack Lang, Ségolène Royal has finally confronted Laurent Fabius and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Debate with his opponents, it accepted reluctantly, finally proved beneficial for the image of the PS, and consequently, of its candidate. With the rallying of the radical left and Jean-Pierre Chevenement, it limited the dispersion of the left... Another way to stave off the spectrum of 2002.

Competed in his field

Right, the emergence of Ségolène Royal has had a rough, as officials were quick to see in it a danger. Nicolas Sarkozy, who was until then the debate of ideas and campaigned on the "break", has been competing on its own land. Ségolène Royal represents the change by the mere fact of being a woman, and do not hesitate to challenge the PS ideologically as himself did a few years to the right.

However, the President of the UMP, as it prepares to receive a plebiscite of his party on 14 January, without question dug the gap with his political family. Dominique de Villepin beau to multiply the sites and to position itself as a potential, it remains very in delay in the polls. Michèle Alliot-Marie has failed to defend an alternative line, especially in economic and social matters. And the parliamentarians and Ministers UMP conducting position suddenly accelerated the movement of rallying to Nicolas Sarkozy in late December, under the impetus of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and another former Prime Minister, Alain Juppe, who has several times called the questioning to gather "as soon as possible" behind the UMP candidate. These movements to the PS and UMP have monopolized the debate, so that in four months of the presidential candidates 'small' have so far been very difficult to be media.