He listens said one of them but it is not

Nicolas Sarkozy would like to forget the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine, which he is the President, that it would not be otherwise. Since the re-entry, it does little in Nanterre. Place Beauvau, he repatriated his cabinet Director, Chantal Jouanno. its General Director, Christophe Mirmand, was appointed Prefect of Haute-Loire; and itself did not refer once to his action in the '92"in his first campaign speech. The sign, according to his family, that the President of the UMP is not the intention to take advantage of here in the election: since how to talk to the whole of the French, in particular the popular electorate, in relying on the richest Department of France (outside Paris)

In addition, the balance sheet is perhaps "globally positive", as stated by the UDF Hervé Marseille, Vice President of the General Council, but it is incomplete and, at the time, not as bright as it would wish the President of the Hauts-de-Seine. Insufficient, in any case, to illustrate the "break" it calls its wishes. "It extends, in its way, that I hired", slides Charles Pasqua, his predecessor at the hotel of the Department.

Display its voluntarism

Since that he took the reins, April 1, 2004, Nicolas Sarkozy yet widely used of the Department as a laboratory to test ideas that are expensive. It was entrusted to a private company to reclassify the RMI, introduced school studies framed up to 18 hours (9,000 beneficiaries, according to the last balance sheet), subsidized private nurseries, experienced the affirmative to the University Léonard de Vinci, introduced a system of merit awards (very disputed) to officials of the General Council.

As it is at the head of the UMP, he had constantly, in the Department, to display its resoluteness. With a single goal in mind: improve, by specific keys, the daily life of the Séquanais Alto, priority families and the middle classes. For early childhood, he created 2.075 crèche places and paid an allowance for childcare at home to 10,000 families. The General Council has funded a part of the registration of 17,000 college students in sports or cultural associations. For the elderly, he introduced an early detection of Alzheimer's disease and granted assistance to 223 caregivers that host parents. "Its policy is neither Gaullist nor liberal;" "it is pragmatic," said Patrick Ollier, Member of UMP of Hauts-de-Seine.

"He listens but is not."

The problem is that many of these measures are not borne fruit. Time as provide it relatives Or because "announcement effects" are, with him, "little followed effects", as the opposition This is the case of social accession to property: just 96 loans housing 92 (support for a further slice of the loan to zero rate) have been signed so far, very far from the objective of a thousand per year. It is also the return to the use of the RMI Department 28,000: less than 1,700 support contracts have been signed and some 315 have only found a workstation.

Remains the method. "There is failure," says François Kosciusko-Morizet, Mayor UMP de Sèvres. To paste the concerns closest, Nicolas Sarkozy launched upon his arrival, a broad consultation of the people: the States General. "They have mainly enabled all justify later", critic Michèle Cannet, the leader of the Socialists at the General Council, pinning "a false participatory democracy". Unions are also critical. For them, Nicolas Sarkozy was "not integrated as Pasqua the role of the social partners". "He listens, said one of them, but it is not.".