There is no pink wave insisted the Elysee

The first round had sounded like "a warning to the UMP and Nicolas Sarkozy" - the formula of the UMP Deputy Claude Goasguen. The second confirmed yesterday, the message of the voters. The cantonal elections by direct universal suffrage by 2012, resulted in a victory for the left. She knocked in anyway the Jura, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Mayotte, can hope to switch the Loire and the Savoy in the "third round" (the election of the President of the General Council), but lost the Val d'Oise. A victory, but not a tidal wave despite the unpopularity of Nicolas Sarkozy in the polls. The Socialists were set as objective a "net" of two to four departments gain. To cross the threshold of 60 General Council presidencies and strengthen their hold on the territories.

For the UMP and Nicolas Sarkozy, he must turn the page more quickly. As soon as the first results, leaders of the majority are applied to minimize the outcome of the cantonal. Focusing on the scope of forbearance, close to the 55,68 of the first round. And on the low number of departments in the anyway the PS. "There is no pink wave", insisted the Elysee. But the poll could leave traces. A point that the Government spokesman Francois Baroin, admitting of cantonal "disappointing", took care to prevent that have another candidate than Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 "would be pure folly." Because if the majority limited case, the head of State and the UMP out a little more weakened these local elections. The party was struck in the first round by the national Front and its candidates eliminated in hundreds of townships. Above all, the cacophony was deep within the Executive, on the position to be adopted for the extreme right. Leaving poses threat to leave the fold of the UMP, Jean-Louis Borloo, the President of the radical party, promised to "learn the lessons" of the cantonal. "Do not delude illusionss: UMP is in very bad condition." "Since 2007, we have fallen 50-storey", insists one Minister, another leader of the majority holding "irreversible" the popularity of the President. The published poll Ipsos last night by France television will not reassured him. 17 To 21 of the vote, Nicolas Sarkozy would not be able to qualify to the second round of the presidential election, that candidate PS Martine Aubry, François Hollande or DSK credited with 34 of the vote. Even if the FN has not provided evidence that he could win without allies, Marine Le Pen is always a huge thorn in the side of the head of State because it is given present in the second round in all cases. "The President to not understand that more it flutters on immigration and security issues, it marks the failure of its balance sheet and the FN progresses", concerned a tenor of the UMP, which "does not see how Nicolas Sarkozy can bounce".

According to his entourage, the head of State should endeavour to find a presidential posture, above the fray, to work to protect the French. "Ecumenical, open and Gatherer", insists one of his closest advisors. Evidenced by its agenda, with attractive strategic Council meeting this morning, a videoconference with Obama, Merkel and Cameron on the Libya in the evening, and a shift in China in the g-20 weekend. All before a "very Republican" speech, on 6 April for the entry of the Martinique Aimé Césaire in the pantheon. Not question to abandon the expensive theme to the popular right. "Areas of concern of the French", slice the Elysee. "The strategy, creaks a Minister, would require Nicolas Sarkozy to take a little field.". His character is that it is impossible...