And irst Secretary it was used to close ranks

Where Ségolène Royal O course, last week, President o Poitou-Charentes ga e oice to denounce the suspension o amily allowances or truancy. O course, a ew days earlier, she had castigated the "authoritarian approach" on pensions. O course, e en be ore, she had requested the suspension o the zoning plan a ter the passage o the Xynthia storm. But the irst presidential rarely appeared also on the sidelines o the national political stage and the Socialist Party (PS) since 2007. "It seeks a window o shooting," estimated rue de Sol erino. Without the, it seems, or the moment. The thing is, it is true, not easy since the success o the PS in the regional. An election ictory that strengthened the grip o his ri al, Martine Aubry, on the party.

The President o Poitou-Charentes needed to be brilliantly re-elected head o his region in March to impose in the Socialist landscape. The objecti e has been ul illed with his score o 61 in the second round. "Its brilliant score is a response to those who thought that she was isolated, Justice spokesman, the Deputy-Mayor o La al, Guillaume Garot. This score has alidated its strategy o gathering o the centrists on trade unionists rom en ironmentalists. It is a beauti ul per ormance or someone that some eel unable to collect! "But inally, the magnitude o the ictory o the PS in the whole o metropolitan areas, except in Alsace, pre ented that a dynamic not naturally de elops around it in the a termath o the second round.

Although much o this success is the responsibility o the outgoing Chairmen o region, Martine Aubry in has been widely credited. And irst Secretary it was used to close ranks. One o the hea yweights cross the white line, and it is immediately back to the order. "The PS is a collecti e: me I do not speak to those who speak in the media and do not come to meetings!", she launched the week last in the direction o Manuel alls a ter his remarks on pensions. "Whoe er is gi ing the impression to be on the sidelines o the gathering would be disquali ied by the acti ists and supporters", assures Deputy Claude Bartolone, near Martine Aubry.

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Then how can Ségolène Royal to do to be more "It eeds the debate le t and hangs in the national debate", assures Guillaume Garot. Thus, in the same that line his party, it has ad ocated the maintenance o the legal age o 60 years and the search or other sources o unding, including by the taxation o the capital. "On the carbon tax, don't orget that it is she who launched the rond and that, inally, Nicolas Sarkozy had to back", said the MP. "We are also acti e in the process o reno ation o the party, he added. It is the role o desires or the uture to add within the PS ideas. With the establishment o primary open to supporters, are once again the ideas o Ségolène Royal that were repeated.

The President o Poitou-Charentes "will continue to weigh in two ways, continues Guillaume Garot. "On the one hand, it is not a orbidden to speak at the national con entions which will take place, second, it will continue to animate in desires or the uture o the re lections on the responses that the le t can make to capitalist globalisation. Ne ertheless, the path is narrow and Ségolène Royal, relati es say ery intuiti e, will ha e to be "creati e" to impose himsel in the upcoming debates without gi ing the impression o scoring goals against his camp. A "regressi e" specialty at the PS.

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