Hervé MorinHe wants to go into combat in 2012

The idea made its way in the majority since its resounding to the regional breakdown. Two candidates to the right rather than a would sweep more broadly in the first round and to constitute valuable reserves of votes for the second in the next presidential election. Alongside the head of State, including the decision to represent is hardly in doubt, an other applicant to the Supreme bench would help to capture the votes of some disappointed of sarkozysme and contribute to weaken a little more François Bayrou. Problem, Nicolas Sarkozy is sticking to its strategy of gathering of his camp in the first round. And potential candidates are vying. Journal of staff.

Jean-Louis Borloo

Some in the majority, openly evoke his possible candidacy, or even call it their greeting, seeing in the Minister of ecology an ideal complement to Nicolas Sarkozy. For his supporters, the President of the radical party would have the same profile to capture a portion of the electorate ecologist and "bobo", when the head of State. The person concerned leaves say, maintaining uncertainty about its intentions. He stated, this is eight days, that he would "consider" the need to "bring together a political family" to defend the values of sustainable development and solidarity, in the presidential election of 2012, once sealed off the Grenelle II Bill (voted Tuesday in the National Assembly last). But the March towards the Elysee would have for him of an obstacle race. The headquarters of the UMP and the new Centre are very hostile to his possible candidacy. The radical party is associated with the UMP and it is unimaginable that there are two candidates presidential training, it is argued rue La Boétie. Nicolas Sarkozy is, a priori, not favourable to such an eventuality. However Jean-Louis Borloo has always said that it would not in combat without the approval of the head of State. Another handicap, polls are not very encouraging for the moment: the number two of the Government is credited to 3 to 6 of the vote in the first round. Since the beginning, Jean-Louis Borloo would in fact not very hot to go to battle. But leave the doubt, history to be in the position of force if the estate of François Fillon in Matignon was opened in the fall.

Hervé Morin

He wants to go into combat in 2012. Nicolas Sarkozy is not expected to speak. In an icy Exchange in the Elysee Palace last month, the head of State said, somewhat brutally, to his Minister of defence, which argued that center-right voters will not vote UMP in the first round. Convinced that the assumption of a candidacy of Jean-Louis Borloo was launched to "stifle" of an "autonomous centrism", Hervé Morin prepares. The President of the new Centre knows that having a presidential candidate is a young party, the only way of asserting itself in the eyes of the public. "If we are going to smoking cessation in smoking cessation, our existence is threatened," he explained to his troops, while since its inception, in 2007, the new Centre always allied to the UMP, polls by unflattering polls. The party, which meets in Congress to towers on 12 and 13 June, promises to organize thematic conventions as early as the fall, so that his project be ready late summer 2011. Is a danger of size: a underperformance would kill in the egg dreams of grandeur of the Centrists. According to the TNS Sofres barometer, the future of Hervé Morin rating does not exceed 15.

Dominique de Villepin

The last head of Government of Jacques Chirac is not yet official candidate, but he, already in the field. With a goal: portrayed himself as a defender of "humanism" and rally around his name those who, right in the centre, want more of Nicolas Sarkozy. Credited by the polls from 7 of voting intentions, with its stature of former Prime Minister and, above all, opposition to the war in Iraq, Dominique de Villepin wants to believe that he can "exceed the partisan divisions" and "reconcile the French through a simple idea: a United Republic." But the task is arduous. More that the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office on the Clearstream trial, which continues to pose a sword of Damocles over its head, the Gaullist has two disadvantages: his troops are thin (a handful of members of Parliament and former Minister Brigitte Girardin) and a campaign cost a lot of money. It is an attempt to remedy that it introduces, June 19, his own political formation. His candidacy could pose problem Hervé Morin as to François Bayrou in the first round of the presidential election. And, second, be very expensive to Nicolas Sarkozy.