The Prime Minister leaves rolled of the crisis

Dominique de Villepin. The Prime Minister leaves rolled of the crisis. Forced to capitulate after twelve weeks of conflict, he had made the battle of the PBS a personal combat. In an attempt to show adamant critics of the street and the warnings of his relatives, Dominique de Villepin has lost the bulk of the credit that he had known raise since its accession to Matignon. He sees fly shattered efforts he had undertaken to undermine its image as a rigid, authoritarian, to impose to voters and members of Parliament he who has never been elected and its catch on Nicolas Sarkozy. The head of the Government beats records of unpopularity in opinion polls and his authority within his Government is more fragile than ever. Its margin of manoeuvre are very reduced and his chances to get back in saddle for 2007 seriously compromised. Last night on TF1, he also declared: "I always said that I had no presidential ambitions."

Nicolas Sarkozy. If it can boast of having outpaced Dominique de Villepin, President of the UMP out not for all free test. By pushing for a compromise, he took the risk to undermine its image to the right-wing electorate, which he promoted the virtues of courage in politics for months. And he has, above all, undermined his speech of "break". A meeting is already scheduled in mid-May, breast. Between the duty to show solidarity with the Government and the need to mark its difference, its positioning appears more complicated than ever.

Jacques Chirac. The repudiation of the Prime Minister, in turn, is a setback for the head of State. He exposed himself on several occasions to support Dominique de Villepin during the storm. And his attempt to overcome the crisis without disavowing his Prime Minister enact the Act asking to not applying it more discredited it has satisfied the French. Is even more harsh that the image and authority of the President had already been initiated, in 2005, by the failure of the referendum on the European Constitution and the violence in the suburbs. Not forgetting the stroke he had suffered last summer.

The PS. The Socialist Party is on paper, the main winner of the case. These two months of crisis led him to remake a health and to forget its internal divisions. Very offensive, the Socialist leaders succeeded in recapturing the image of first opponent that François Bayrou had reached steal them last fall. But it remains the most difficult: a candidate and develop a program to transform the test in 2007. A LH2 survey published yesterday by "Release", 63 of the French feel that the left has no better ideas than the right to tackle youth unemployment.

François Bayrou. The President of the UDF should also take advantage of the game this. The crisis of the CPE supports the strategy to break with the UMP, weakening a little more Gilles de Robien, the centrist Minister of National Education, zealous advocate of the CPE and committed supporter of an anchor of the party in the majority. It mainly brings water to his mill, validating his diagnosis on the State of the countries and institutions. The question is whether the French are ready to get out of alternating UMP - PS, while the last two months resulted in a revival of the left-right divide.

Extreme right. After the crisis of the suburbs, the SCE appears for the extreme right, as a new opportunity to capture voices beyond his traditional electorate. It has multiplied releases to denounce "weakness" of power and "anarchy" in the street, claim the resumption of the course and ask guarantor of the authority of the State. The right is concerned more than ever of its accession, as in 2002, in the second round of the presidential election. But in 2007, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the President of the national Front, will not be alone in trying to surf on the wave of discontent. He must also count with Philippe de Villiers, the leader of the movement for the France, hunting on the same beds him.