François Bayrou had not seen the time coming; He took his time to respond. No question for the President of the Modem to steal the spotlight. No question of leaving Ségolène Royal and his "Cannibal strategy" - dixit an advisor to the centrist - parasitize the programmatic Congress of his party in Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais. Member of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques waited yesterday the end of his speech to oppose barred the Socialist, who had proposed the eve of Alliance in the first round of the regional in Poitou-Charentes, against "five places eligible." "I heard the proposals here and there:"Come to us, we give you X places and you will be happy!". This is not our view of things (...). "The first round of the elections, it is the turn of pluralism and that is that we want to be", he decided, refusing to appear as a suppletive of PS, let alone one of its currents. "If we are not independent, he continued, we can be the point of convergence of the Republicans."He did not cite a single name of Ségolène Royal.
Anxious to rebound in March regional and, above all, to continue to advance his pawns toward 2012, François Bayrou applied to an apology for his "humanist" project in Defender of the "small people" against the "unacceptable". In other words: against Nicolas Sarkozy, charged to "impair" secularism, equality, fraternity, i.e. "to national identity". The centrist knows that his salvation cannot come from the left. Also, it has multiplied calls of the foot to Socialist voters and environmentalists. Although it marks its difference with the PS on the company and with environmentalists on nuclear power, Modem advocated loose, 216 proposals, the abandonment of the tax shield, a more progressive taxation, increased contributions to unemployment insurance for large groups who dismiss "of excessive". It promises to include in the Constitution "the protection of future generations", stands up for the regularization of undocumented migrants who have been working for three years and the voting rights of foreigners in local elections. What the left has "always promised, never applied," slipped François Bayrou.

"It will be very hard."
This will suffice to the Modem to succeed the regional The question is this. In the party, many are concerned. Not only its leaders do not figure in heavy weight, but the dynamics is today clearly in Europe ecology camp. "It will be very hard," says a top of the list. The MEP Jean-Luc Bennahmias attempted to reassure troops by explaining that the elections "are played in the last week." But the issue is size. It is not certain that the Modem and François Bayrou can if offer the luxury of failure after its setbacks in the legislative, and municipal and, especially, of European (8.45 of the vote). Five years ago, the UDF had approached the bar of the 12, on average, in 16 regions where she presented an autonomous list (in the other six, it was allied to the UMP). A hundred days of the election, polls crediting the Modem 6 to 8 of the vote.