Careful he still called yesterday to stand

This battle that was earned in advance; the following looks much more complicated. Re-elected at the head of the new Centre, with 93.4 of the vote in an obscure city of Eure and Loir elected, Hervé Morin applied yesterday to put his party on track towards 2012, putting his weight in the balance to convince his troops to follow him in the battle. "If we are not going to the end, it is that we will have failed." I did not intend to be the President of a party which would summarize is to be the decor of a room to play without him (...) "We will have a candidate", he said at the end of the Congress of the new Centre in Tours, saying "do not want to exist by the sole intention of prince". However, the Minister of defence did not crossed the Rubicon, keeping to announce his own candidacy, which Nicolas Sarkozy does not want to hear. "The presidential election is far away, he argued. "Those who would be already in this perspective spread of decency in our compatriots" hit by the crisis.

Show the difference

Between calls to the gathering centre and the beating of claw to François Bayrou, the new Centre seeks to put "on condition" to participate in the race. Thematic conventions will be held each month from October to lead to a project in the fall of 2011. Objective: identify, before the official announcement of candidacy, "markers" for the new Centre to show a difference with the UMP. In the party, it seems to assume that Hervé Morin will not be renewed in his duties at the next reshuffle. At the time, some wonder if it should not, to mark the opinion, slamming the door of the Government itself. "It is not a bad tactic", slides the MP Jean Dionis of the stay. But on what grounds "We are in the majority for three years." "A clash not would not understand French", warns the Senator Yves Pozzo di Borgo.

These questions reflect the difficulties faced by the new Centre. "As if it were us pull out of quicksand who would absorb us," says Hervé Morin. A reference to Nicolas Sarkozy, who feared that a new Centre nomination remove votes in the first round without him bring in the second. The pressure on 23 centrist Deputies is already high. Some of them will be received on Wednesday at the Elysee (the day before, the centrists will meet to try to give their violins). A UMP, we want to believe that the elected representatives of the new Centre will not take the risk to endanger their re-election to support a Hervé Morin, whose presidential score appears for the less uncertain. He dreams to embody in 2012 modernity to the right, as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had done in its time, the Minister of defence has today a big deficit of notoriety to the Modem François Bayrou or the UMP Jean-Louis Borloo, also preferred by Valérie Létard, Secretary of centrist state to green technology... François Sauvadet, leader of the centrist deputies, said his troops "solid". Hervé Morin also. Careful, he still called yesterday to "stand".