June 7 many want to say no to Nicolas Sarkozy

After the Socialist Party last Friday in Toulouse, is the UMP that launches this week its campaign for the European elections of June 7. With the immediate a common objective: mobilize the French for an election where participation is traditionally very low (43 in 2004). While acknowledging having taken late in the composition of its lists (the deadline to submit applications is May 11), Xavier Bertrand party tomorrow holds its first general meeting at Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), with the participation of François Fillon, Michel Barnier, Rachida Dati and several other Ministers. The Prime Minister will speak on behalf of the France at the opening of the Congress of the EPP, Wednesday in Warsaw.

But the true top departure will be given by Nicolas Sarkozy, contrary to the municipal elections of last year, decided to get involved in the campaign. He held a speech in Nîmes on May 5, before a joint meeting with Angela Merkel may 10 in Germany, and perhaps even a second early June in France.

Appeal to sanction vote

If the elections are still a little difficult for the party in power, the President of the Republic is convinced that the best selling point for the UMP remains the French Presidency of the EU budget (July-December 2008). The campaign of the right turn then on voluntarism, with slogan "If the Europe wants, Europe can." The world has changed with the crisis, now that Europe Exchange also considers the UMP. Michel Barnier, the leader of the majority for the elections, hope that "all the Ministers who want to" invest also considering that all the forces will be needed to meet the left and his call to vote sanctions against Nicolas Sarkozy.

And indeed, Martine Aubry has opened his own campaign showing very offensive Friday on "the policy ineffective and unfair to Nicolas Sarkozy". It even generated a controversy with the UMP after meeting with employees of the Molex OEM: "I do not accept violence, but face contempt, one can understand, I take this action as a last cry of alarm", was launched.

PS given behind the UMP

So, the first Secretary of the PS is well aware that in the field of the sanction vote, it will not be the only. At Toulouse, it was surrounded by top of the Socialist list of the 27 EU countries and candidates to make PS a force proposals, capable of building "another Europe, a Europe less wild." "June 7, many want to say no to Nicolas Sarkozy... and we will not be the last to denounce..., but we with the PES are a political force to find a political opportunity," she said. With already a slogan, "People first", and the concrete measures: a "real" stimulus plan, effective regulation of financial markets and more solidarity among European countries. While the opinion polls behind the UMP PS, Martine Aubry intends to put all the chances of his side for his first campaign at the head of the PS: it calls internal to cease quarrels, scroll along with Ségolène Royal on May 1 and will hold joint with it for a meeting platform may 27 near Nantes.