The revenge echoes flowered in the newspapers

The UMP is about to be defeated at the regional, farmers are desperate, but François Fillon appeared relaxed when he surveyed, three hours, yesterday morning, the aisles of the exhibition of agriculture. Matignon had strengthened the safety device and under umbrellas to deal to potential projectiles jets, but it was not necessary. The Prime Minister was properly allowed, even though he had no announcement to make (the President will do this Saturday). Exchanges on the quality of cows in a stop near a sheep pen, it even seemed almost cheerful. A relationship between this good mood and the Ipsos ("Les Echos" of yesterday) survey which dedicated its status of présidentiable (where Nicolas Sarkozy would not stand)

"It must be to celebrate my birthday, I guess," dropped, tongue-in-cheek the head of Government, who turned 56. Without challenge, as it usually is the one of the "Point" of this week slashed a potentially irritating title for the Elysee Palace"Chairman Fillon". One of his followers, Member of Parliament for Paris Jean-François Lamour was more concerned: "It is conducive to feed small phrases and tensions," said, thinking very hard about the susceptibility of Nicolas Sarkozy. Altogether ironic, François Hollande, who quickly crossed the Prime Minister, launched the journalists: "is not made, may lose his position as Prime Minister...". "Then the Prime Secretary of the PS became more serious:" between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon, can compare styles but there is no disruption: it is the same policy. ".

Complex relationship

It is the paradox Fillon repeatedly described and dissected after it became more popular than the head of State. Each month, the BVA for "Les echos", France Info and Absoluce barometer confirms that the economic policy of his Government is unpopular but the Prime Minister does not appear to suffer in the polls. The right-wing supporters find it reassuring and those left are used to "better mark their hostility" Nicolas Sarkozy. While the Prime Minister is not a campaign meeting (he now nightly) without calling control of spending and the reform of public services - some popular themes left - when it does not open the debate on the calculation of the retirement of civil servants. "This is not my way to campaign, but good...". ", cowardly skeptic a head of the UMP. But, at Matignon, emphasis: "first quality of a policy, it is the manner in which the electoral body see you your sincerity." May sometimes give grain to grind to those who believe that the head of the Government handles a little too refined its profile of "the one who did not abscond realities."

The head of State having left more space in recent months, François Fillon took its comfortable. To contradict Nicolas Sarkozy week last on the prospect of falling unemployment. The revenge echoes flowered in the newspapers. "When the Prime Minister is was and climbing in the polls, this annoys the President, which found that it exposes enough." When François anchored his shirt and plays its role as Prime Minister, it also annoys Nicolas. "It is the complex and normal relationship between the two," says a leader of the UMP which relativizes the irritation without deny it. Yesterday, François Fillon appeared out of reach of this concern here. It is true that the Secretary General of the Elysee, Claude Guéant, very formally declared a few weeks he was not in the projects of the head of the state change of Prime Minister after the regional. Even if grand slam Socialist Among the Ministers, the answer is always the same: "and one which would place."