For now his Government calendar stops in June

Week looks still extremely sensitive to the Executive, Jean-Louis Borloo who even mentioned yesterday, in "Le Journal du dimanche", "curse hit the majority" with the Clearstream affair. While the judges of Huy and Pons continue this week their searches and auditions General Rondot refuses to go to his own the political pressure on Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin still climbs a notch. Socialists defend tomorrow in the National Assembly a motion of censure against the Government, what they consider to be discredited by the "Darkover case Clearstream". It has certainly no chance to be adopted (the UMP being majority), but PS hope thus to show doubts the case emerged in the ranks of the majority. "Those who will not vote the censorship will be solidarity from the crisis," said François Hollande this weekend.

An opportunity to embody the failure

Dominique de Villepin table, on the contrary, the episode to re-consolidate its troops and find some oxygen for continuing its action: he moves today in the Paris region to talk about renewable energy and will be for the meeting Wednesday evening. But the Socialist approach has already marked a point: François Bayrou, President of the UDF, announced last night on TF1 that it join the voices of the PS to censure the Government. Of course, a part of his troops should not follow him, but the symbol is: the UDF had opposed the last Finance Act, but was never censured the Government. "It is an act of opposition to the decadence in which we live," says François Bayrou, who is especially, to a year in the presidential election, an opportunity to embody the "break", where Nicolas Sarkozy finally made the choice to remain in the Government.

Because if the pattern of the UMP has contributed to the Clearstream case in public, it is widely caught by the malaise affecting the whole of the majority. Evidenced by the contortions that case and the mis en cause of Dominique de Villepin drove him for two weeks. After to be shown ready for Matignon while Jacques Chirac continued to support the Prime Minister and then letting relatives advise him openly to leave the Government, he has to explain for almost an hour, Saturday, before his party Executive, why he chose finally to remain Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin.

A very uncomfortable position

"I know what my heart tells me to do, but I also know that my reason places me", he launched, claiming not to want to "create the conditions for a political crisis that would only benefit to the left and the extreme". It is in no less claimed "truth" about the "lamentable" case, that the Republic is "rid of pharmacies, and conspirators, and forgers." In total, his position seems very uncomfortable: he who wanted to embody the "break" with Chirac years takes the risk to be taken with the Executive in the turmoil of the case. "Victory to play more on the quality of our project on the only strength of our balance sheet", is it believe, while ensuring that concrete conclusions of justice it would reconsider its position. For now, his Government calendar stops in June.