This is not a fixed dogma but a living approach

Is this the beginning of the "tests" that Ségolène Royal said Friday that she wanted to "protect his family" Since yesterday, interested in one of his brothers, Gérard, the New Zealand police for his involvement in the sinking of the "Rainbow Warrior" (see page 16). The candidate expressed surprise this rebound twenty-one years after the facts and turned his eyes towards the Government. A one and a half months of the inauguration of the PS for the presidential election, it is both the favourite in the polls and that of the local barons of the PS. Released by the withdrawal of Lionel Jospin and the clarification of François Hollande, officially off race since Saturday, it addresses the competitive position of strength to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius (Jack Lang will decide Tuesday). Three statements, three postures, but also three political positioning.

Yesterday in Fleuras (Gers), Laurent Fabius has focused on the refusal "hyper-libérale drift" and a "company dominated exclusively by money." It is for him the message expressed by the French in all elections since 2002 and in the protests against the CPE. He has "changed", he "it is completely". He wants to be "the candidate of the purchasing power."

"We go out of the virtual."

Regularly accused of "drift right-" for his remarks on safety, school map and the 35 hours, Ségolène Royal made Friday, an update: "these problems are neither right nor left, but there are many responses of left and right answers." His entry into campaign speech is organized around two key words: the nation and the left, "the tricolour and social security." "Because, home, social and national walk together and it is the State which is the guarantor of their alliance," she said. His entourage, Ségolène Royal as part in the mitterrandiste line. in Vitrolles, his speech was rather thinking about Chevenement. The social and national, "the association of those two words I impedes a little", Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the "Grand Jury RTL -"Le Figaro"- REBA" said yesterday. First to declare Friday in his hometown of green-winged teal, former boss of Bercy wants to appear as one which "combines the best the necessary renovation and anchor" left. As Laurent Fabius, he made the purchasing power of a priority and, as Ségolène Royal, it does not preclude a review of the special schemes at a "discount flat" General of pensions. Synthesis becomes less readable when he defends the 35 hours explaining that need "leave them State" after the flexibilities carried out by the right.

These positions over the weekend may accredit the idea that there are three lines in the PS", as the fabiusiens and the kahniens strauss repeatedly. But Ségolène Royal knows muddying. It has focused on the role of the State, but it is also a convinced décentralisatrice. It is positioned on old values while warning: "socialism is not a mummy wrapped doctrinal strips (...)." This is not a fixed dogma but a living approach. "One way, perhaps, to embrace the ambiguities and contradictions of the French showing as a multifaceted personality.

Competitors want to enjoy six debates scheduled to put in difficulty. "We go out of the virtual, we enter the real" ensures DSK. "It is the small single window", recognizes the fabiusien

Philippe Martin.