Its economic and social policies remain unclear

Ségolène Royal, Laurent Fabius, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They will be three to run for Office of the members of the PS for the presidential inauguration; yesterday evening, the national Office of the party officially launched the internal campaign. Favorite, Ségolène Royal is a broad designation in the first round on November 16. DSK and Laurent Fabius hope the force a second ballot, November 23, and compete for the place of the challenger. Both rely on the six debates between let to tilt the balance in their favour.

Ségolène Royal

the favourite

Fifty-three years, it is the first woman to win the presidential election. Enarque, Advisor to the Elysee Palace, then three times in the head of "small" departments. Is not a new figure, but attacks from its competitors and its little taste for the internal fighting in the PS gave a picture "out of system", all to his advantage.

Ideas lighthouses. "Military" for juvenile offenders supervision; relaxation of the school map; packaging of public aid to companies in various criteria including quality of employment.

Credo. She built her candidacy on an approach: "participation" of the "expert citizens" as a response to the political crisis. His values "just order", the alliance of the social and the nation are part of the Republican tradition of left. Taking iconoclastic positions on the security or the 35 hours, it means not to evade the problems "are the French" and limit the right space. "Attention to remember his own land", is nevertheless concerned François Hollande.

Forces. Its popularity to the fixed beau led the rallying of many local barons of the PS. Debate left is focused on its proposals. The role of ecology in his speech is to seduce the Greens voters.

Weaknesses. Almost silent on international except co-development issues she committed several blunders. Its economic and social policies remain unclear. His authoritarian methods in Poitou-Charentes are criticized.

Backer. 50 Patterns of federations and many parliamentarians including the Chairmen of the groups PS in the Assembly and the Senate (Jean-Marc Ayrault and Jean-Pierre Bel), Pierre Mauroy, Arnaud Montebourg, Jean-Noël Guérini (Bouches), François Rebsamen, number two of the PS, and Julien Dray, spokesperson for the party.

Laurent Fabius

the tenacious

At the age of sixty, he held the highest offices of State, except the Presidency of the Republic. He was Minister in 1981 He "assumes", because leadership requires experience and "successive sedimentation".

Ideas lighthouses. Increase the minimum wage of 100 euros in 2007; substitution of the prefect to the Mayor to launch the construction of social housing in poor communes; wide regularization of undocumented migrants.

Credo. All elections since 2002 have been, according to him, marked by the rejection of a "hyperlibérale drift". To regain the popular classes, he returned to the basic left old in a statist acceptance of the term and makes proposals with high symbolic value.

Forces. Number of ideas including the minimum wage to 1,500 euros by 2012 were repeated in the PS project. When he entered in dissent, on the European Constitution, he found himself in the camp of the winners. Very good speaker, he knows how to return a room.

Weaknesses. His crossing of the right wing to the left wing of the PS raises doubts on its sincerity. Popularity is invariably in Bern. With a structured network of elected officials, it has never been majority to him all alone in the party.

Backer. Seventeen patterns of federations and 63 parliamentarians including the faithful Claude Bartolone, Henri Weber, Michel Charasse, Didier Migaud, Paul Quilès, and such allies Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Alain Vidalies.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

the emancipated

Now end his candidacy, this Associate Professor of Economics, Member for the Val-, it is, to fifty-seven years, enfranchised in the tutelage of Lionel Jospin, which he was the Minister of Economics from 1997 to 1999.

Ideas lighthouses. A public service of childhood, "temporary nationalization" of strategic enterprises in difficulty and the extension of the payment of business tax for those who relocate despite profits.

Credo. He wants to appear as "the one that combines the best" anchor to the left (values) and renovation (of political tools). He said the democratic message (priority to the production of wealth and social negotiation) and convinced the PS to "attack the root inequality" rather than simply a redistribution of income that has shown its limits.

Forces. He is credited of real economic expertise and capacity of inventiveness. Polyglot, he has been investing in contacts with the social-

European Democrats.

Weaknesses. Long appeared to the right wing of the PS, he wanted to focus, which has clouded its image and left space for renovation to Ségolène Royal. Often perceived as elitist, it has neither the popularity of the President of the Poitou-Charentes region or of a network of elected representatives as strong as that of Laurent Fabius.

Backer. Seventeen patterns of federations and 36 parliamentarians which Michel Rocard, Pierre Moscovici, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, but also hosts the old networks rocardiens Alain Bergounioux and Alain Richard.