Philippe Bas family is a point of collapse

Dominique de Villepin will soon be the only villepiniste of the Government Angered by the stubbornness of the Prime Minister during the crisis of the CPE, convinced that he has lost all his chances for the presidential election of 2007, many of his ministers have begun in recent months more or less supported way, a movement of reconciliation with Nicolas Sarkozy. Time seems far away, in any case, where the Minister of the Interior could rely for its support on his two faithful Brice Hortefeux and Christian Estrosi, Ministers respectively to the territorial communities and the development of the territory. "Thirty, we are no longer than a decade to support the Prime Minister", recently dropped Azouz Begag, Minister of equal opportunities.

The recently very supported tribute to Nicolas Sarkozy by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the Minister of Culture, has not gone unnoticed. "Dear Nicolas, you can count on my energy, my enthusiasm and my involvement in the battles that lie ahead", was launched on July 6. Almost an act of allegiance on the part of a man who long described as "close" to Dominique de Villepin, his comrade of promoting at the ENA.

Very noticed poles

Jean-François Copé, also, tense very noticed poles to Nicolas Sarkozy, with which it is yet in cold since the 2004 regional. The Budget Minister and Government spokesman warned commit "without ambiguity for the candidate" supported by the UMP, "and it has every reason to think that this will be Nicolas Sarkozy". More prudent in the expression, Pascal Clément (Justice) appears on the same wavelength. And a battery of parliamentarians: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Laurent Wauquiez, Jérôme Chartier, Luc Chatel...

The pendulum movement cannot come as a surprise on the part of men and women who have sacrificed everything to policy and still hope to play a role after 2007. "As parliamentarians, Ministers have recorded that Dominique de Villepin did not, as he said himself, presidential ambition", says Frédéric Lefebvre, the parliamentary Adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy. Others require the President of the UMP for the investitures in 2007 and 2008. Dominique Perben (transport) covets the City Hall of Lyon. Renaud Dutreil (SMEs and trade) and Catherine Vautrin (parity) compete for that of Reims. Jean-François Lamour (Sports) has to be assigned a district for the legislative elections in Paris in the 15th arrondissement. Philippe Bas (family) is a point of collapse. François Loos (industry) would leave the lower Rhine. Philippe Douste-Blazy (Foreign Affairs), who wants to represent in Toulouse, have undertaken work to approach.

Still more complicated cases. Thierry Breton (Economics and finance) and François Baroin (Overseas) are both close to Chirac and in very good agreement with Nicolas Sarkozy. The last welcomed even to be "chiraco-sarko-villepino-compatible... There are also Michèle Alliot-Marie (defence) and Jean-Louis Borloo (employment), which play their own map. Nothing to see, in any case, with the last square Chirac supporter: Henri Cuq (Relations with the Parliament), François Goulard (higher education) and, to a lesser extent, Christian Jacob (public service). So, those criticized Nicolas Sarkozy that it will be difficult to hope, with the lesser return to grace.