If the lessons I do so he promised Sunday

And now François Bayrou will have to tackle the task to try to trace back the slope after the failure of the Modem to the European: 8.45 of the votes and 6 elected, any list above 10. "If the lessons, I do so", he promised Sunday. Review of details of the work ahead.

A governance change

After the announcement of the results, Corinne Lepage, elected in the Northwest, has put pressure on François Bayrou: "If the Modem to the future, should it collective." The centrist leader is accused of long date and not only those which abandoned it in 2007 to be "very policy", to work and to decide everything alone or with a small group of faithful. With Marielle de Sarnez, his right arm. In the party, some criticize this last not without a certain jealousy his abrupt, sometimes authoritarian character and accuse him to exclude those who might intercalate between she and François Bayrou. "I have the authority;" "I am not in authoritarianism", corrects the Contracting Party. "Marielle is infinitely precious to this House," insists François Bayrou: "It attacks it because we don't dare to tackle me." The centrist promises a new "organization", in which each will be "of responsibilities".

A strategy to correct

Rather than focus on its European proposals (as wished Marielle de Sarnez), has chosen it arises as the heir of the founders of the Union, François Bayrou to focus the campaign on criticism of Nicolas Sarkozy. With, inter alia, a book denouncing the "abuse of power" of the head of State. If this strategy allowed him to occupy the front of the stage, she seems to have tired the view. "In an election, two messages, it is one too many," slip Gérard Faivre, Director of Jean-François Kahn in the European campaign. "Upon arrival, there is a bestseller and electoral failure", laments a centrist. Before even the altercation with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the Modem was "on a toboggan", admits in the entourage of François Bayrou. Even among the voters of the centrist party, barely one in three would have voted based on national concerns, according to a TNS Sofres survey.

François Bayrou has made his mea culpa. But correct shooting is not coming easy. Put forward proposals, it is also the risk, including on questions of society, offending a part of his very composite electorate. "A large quarter to the left, one half to the centre, a small shift to the right", explains Eric Azière, specialist of the elections to the Modem.

An image to find

François Bayrou has seen the end of the campaign alter its image. To the Modem, it is recognized that accusing Daniel Cohn-Bendit of convenience for paedophilia François Bayrou has given the sense of "rummage through the garbage" and ébrécher "White Knight" stature, her positions on "values". Not to mention "accomplices smiles with Marine Le Pen" to denounce the polls, which have shocked some of centrist voters. The third man of the presidential knows that it should be, now, to give him "a less confrontational image" while remaining "intractable on the merits." "To be leaving time for time", is the MEP Jean-Luc Bennahmias. Before adding: "Presidents of the Republic who have had a non-tarnished image, me, I know not...".