The constitutional reform is passed by thereWithin a decade their number has doubledAll the parts do not have the same interestUntil then it was in the status quo anteGilles Babinet won his first million eurosOur policy work and resists the economic modelSustainable development is almost mandatory What are your agreements with the StateATypically more arid the dob has been a festival of good wordsAt the close the S P 500 has fallen by 1Jean-François Copé readily reported this joke that he has launched a Minister: "If you came back to the Government, you recognise more job!" In fact, the climate of tension and instability in which live the Ministers should not the economic crisis and social problems that they face. Nicolas Sarkozy gave a new way of relationship between a President and his ministers, where incentives and curses move, and where even the most solid can be added a "mediator" who can only weaken them. "It is a pebble in the shoe of each," note a counsellor. With bonus now well installed redesign "over water" which amounts in reality to each, and constantly in the spotlight. The next is nearby: Michel Barnier left in may Agriculture for the European campaign. Rachida Dati will abandon the Justice in the wake of the elections. A game of musical chairs opens to replace. Heavy weights will make their entrance Alain Juppe has made offers of service.
"Sarkozy barometer".
Xavier Darcos, Minister of Education, has failed to reform the lycée, however his Government career seems to promise a bright future; Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister of the Interior, has posted a more than Honourable figure of decrease in crime in 2008 ( 0.86 in one year) and Nicolas Sarkozy remained severe in his action. Two years after the presidential election, the promise of an evaluation of Ministers sitting on performance criteria have fizzled. The principle of "political reality" has prevailed, that retains fidelity, reactivity, or the ability of a small sentence more than a programme of work duly filled out. And primer arbitrary (or some form of "political performance") on the goal. Rating of Ministers, it results in fine for a blend of popularity in the opinion of hearing in the media, but particularly of the place they hold in the small Presidential papers. The only real novelty is that the criteria for assessment of Nicolas Sarkozy have evolved with the crisis and the failure of the Dati experience: "is less in display or marketing, it is in the search for seriously", observes an advisor.
Ministers with a view
It is a rule of gold under the era Sarkozy: any Minister was, is or will be subject to the timely annoyance of the President of the Republic. "Microclimate change very fast", is a Minister. Nevertheless: in addition to Brice Hortefeux, which, by its historical proximity with the head of State and his Sioux caution at the Ministry of labour, remains favorite Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, one handful of others was able to score points in recent months. Christine Lagarde (economy) and Eric Woerth (Budget) are few. The first gaffes are overlooked: the Elysee and Matignon point now has "held the rank of the France international" and that it is spent to explain the anti-crisis policy. This recent kindness doubles as a progression in the polls (with 54 in the barometer FIFG-"Paris Match"), making dream some relatives of other ministerial portfolio, including Justice. Eric Woerth, him, not drills in the polls, but continues to impose in the Elysee Palace by its regularity and its seriousness.
More recent is the conversion of the head of State to Roselyne Bachelot (health), which swapped its bright colours against strict tailors and comes to vote the law hospital by avoiding a new social front. "It is solid," regularly boasts Nicolas Sarkozy. The same assessment frequently returns to the address of Luc Chatel (industry and spokesperson), which was able to convince by its sobriety. Eric Besson (Immigration) also arrived at the top of the charts, and not only because he remains a figure of the "opening": "It is enormously," notes on the Elysee and the UMP, where he has offered a leadership position. The President made him in any case sufficient confidence for the leaving smooth bury the famous order DNA that Brice Hortefeux him had left a legacy.
With respect to Valérie Pécresse (higher education), it has just won the primary UMP for the regional Ile-de-France sign, said a Minister "that the President did vote in its favour and believes in it, despite the conflict in the University."
Ministers to sentencing
Michèle Alliot-Marie (Interior) and Yves Jégo (Overseas) received Wednesday last Council of Ministers the congratulations of the Chief of State: they come after two months of extreme tension on the West Indies, Nicolas Sarkozy, who criticized the first his absence and the second his clumsiness. Rachida Dati (Justice) and Christine Boutin (housing) have they not been entitled to catch-up sessions: President is even more semblance of them. Anticipating his departure from the Government, Rachida Dati has multiplied the interventions in the media these days, but not convincing in the Elysee Palace: "Instead of defending his record, it would better to talk about Europe," was mocked. His colleague from housing accumulates the reminders of the head of State, on the status of the in-laws and leasehold evictions for the most recent.
The case of Bernard Kouchner (Foreign Affairs) is trickier: it remains one of the favourite French Ministers (although he accuses a sharp drop in the polls), and the Elysée has decided to support it after the book by Pierre Péan dependant. But Nicolas Sarkozy gives her a tiny place in the conduct of international affairs its relations are strained with Jean-Daniel Levitte sherpa and his administration hardly admire it. "The only usefulness of Bernard Kouchner, is that, when listening, this avoids the President read the"diplomatic world"," grinding a close.
The "cases" and the "cuckoo".
Among the 38 members of the Fillon Government, there is also the unclassifiable. Jean-Louis Borloo (sustainable development), "little foreseeable, a bit poetic, but worker", as defined an advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy. Rama Yade (human rights), which has failed to mollify the head of State after telling him "no" to the European, but well out in front of all polls (71 of good opinions according to Ifop, 8 points in a month) and continues its work of field and media as if nothing had. Xavier Darcos (Education), he "felt the hot breath of the unions in the neck", as it is fun, but the head of State seems to hold it against him. Nicolas Sarkozy avoids him to shift the blame for the failure of the reform of high school: on the contrary, "it is because he has made many reforms until it has happened," explains to the UMP.
Rest Martin Hirsch (active solidarity and youth), very well seen Nicolas Sarkozy (and Raymond Soubie, social Advisor) but less and less of his ministerial colleagues. Christine Lagarde (on the consumer credit), Laurent Wauquiez (on the employment of young people), Fadela Amara (on the second chance school), Valérie Pécresse (on the student status) lived poorly recent irruptions of the High Commissioner on issues concerning them. "First, it is a policy of left, and then, on the pretext that it is"High Commissioner"and not"Minister", it is abstract all traditional codes of the Government, which are to involve the other Ministers, to quote, share information", concerns a member of the Government. "It is a cuckoo: it its eggs in the nests of others", is irritated by another.
A cuckoo, the darlings and the jealous: a perfume of court blow to the Government.
