But it provides in the words of Matignon port policy

Some policies are in need of a "brain storming" collective to prepare their passage to the television. François Fillon, him, application notes and is locked only. The Prime Minister asked his staff of his household "of the time" before his intervention this evening in "has you judge" on France 2. For some forty minutes, it will explain to the French pension reform, two days after massive demonstrations. Will he have to find the words to the closing of trade unions and the opposition on "injustice" of the Government project. His presence, guest of honor at the show, is not to the charge of this reform, refereed in the Elysee Palace and defended in the Assembly by Eric Woerth. But it provides, in the words of Matignon, "port policy". The head of the Government is now in first line on the major project of the end of the quinquennium in an exercise of pedagogy to the French that the head of State had previously tended to reserve (the last long television intervention of François Fillon dates back to November 2008). And the 2010 intake is, so far, the most offensive has made François Fillon since his arrival at Matignon.

"Nothing to prove".

After having broken, mid-July, the semantic "rigor" taboo imposed by Nicolas Sarkozy, the Prime Minister acknowledged late August its "differences" with the head of State, including on the speech of Grenoble. The admission was surprising on the part of a man who had struggled for three years to publicly undermine its differences with the President. "The proximity of the departure, this makes relaxed", loose a friend of François Fillon, in reference to the great realignment announced for November. Perhaps. Always popular, Prime Minister slid himself in July: "I have more to prove." But the most surprising is that, contrary to the habits, men of the Elysee did not immediately reacted, preferring to play down. "All my statements are compatible with Republican values", just assured yesterday Nicolas Sarkozy.

For Matignon, the names of potential successors (Jean-Louis Borloo, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Brice Hortefeux, François Baroin) are circulating, but none appears obvious. In absolute terms, the Prime Minister would be willing, explain many of its interlocutors, to extend its lease at Matignon at least until the spring of 2011. But the same added that the announcement repeated a "new step" by Nicolas Sarkozy makes this unlikely scenario. "The announcement of a major overhaul encloses a little", loose a counsellor.

Then what for then If Xavier Bertrand left the leadership of the UMP, one national post free and Nicolas Sarkozy did not exclude to François Fillon. But the head of the Government engages little, especially about its ambitions. The leader of the UMP deputies, who seeks the position, confess without fard: "our trade with Nicolas (Sarkozy) are much more direct." But, with François, I never managed to know or even to detect a sign. There is nothing. If there is a difference between us, it is that I say what I think and what I want.

"The party, a place of authority."

Many advise against the head of State to give "the keys" of the party to the ambitious leader of Deputies, but hypothesis Fillon also has its critics, who see not the Prime Minister proud be sufficiently motivated to put hands every day in the "internal kitchen" of the party. And, in the middle of it all, Xavier Bertrand says that it is not "restless".

One thing is certain, some of his advisers push Prime Minister to the General Secretariat of the UMP: "the party, it is a place of expression and the authority, it has already. It would have a hearing greater than Xavier Bertrand duties given to before. "They know that François Fillon, challenge to the former Premiers"embittered", has no desire of them look like. With respect to let Jean-François Copé take an ascendancy on the device from the perspective of 2017... Among elected officials, the Parisians, who want to see it run for Mayor of the capital, the grow also to take the reins of the UMP: a national function would make it less brutal change in electoral district of François Fillon in 2012, argue.