All in a few weeks of the regional elections

Nicolas Sarkozy went on Christmas day spend a few days to Morocco the heavy heart after the resounding failure of the Copenhagen Summit. He returned today to Paris for the less upset after the cancellation by the Constitutional Council of one of the building lights of 2009. Before members of the majority, the head of State had not hesitated to compare the creation of the carbon tax to the legalization of abortion by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the abolition of the death penalty by François Mitterrand. He saw a reform policy and major societal, a "marker" of its quinquennium.

It is forced to get back on the business project that turns more and more the puzzle and adjust the wishes that he will address tonight to the French. "The President is determined," it provides in his entourage. "He will remind the environmental priority of its policy."

Estate of quack

This unexpected episode closed a second disaster already half for Nicolas Sarkozy. Since its malaise, in July, the head of State has accumulated the setbacks. Video Brice Hortefeux in the summer schools of the UMP in the election unsuccessful Jean Sarkozy at the head of the Epad, passing by the controversy over Frédéric Mitterrand and the slippages in the debate on national identity, the quack succeeded. On a background of rising unemployment and record unpopularity of the Executive. "This grave evil after a particularly bad year end", recognizes a relative of the President.

After the fiasco of the track in Copenhagen, which was much committed, Nicolas Sarkozy is mainly to inflict a second affront on land that he had invested after the success of Europe-ecology in the last-res European elections in June. Its commitment to the climate has won in the end of 2009 more than taunts and satisfactions. The opposition not to is also not deprived yesterday to attack on this point. "The great idea to build an ecological tax is today - to now ruined by the electioneering frenzy of the President of the Republic, said Jean-Marc Ayrault, President of the PS National Assembly group.". Failure at the Copenhagen Summit, failure on the carbon tax. It is a beautiful mess. Nicolas Sarkozy spoke very but has continued setbacks. "The head of State" has been impersonating the hérault of the ecology, it is not up to the emergency, said the Greens. " "His attitude messy and narcissistic, both at the Copenhagen Summit that in the design of the carbon tax, prove it, unfortunately."

Right, some rejoice

François Bayrou has pressed the nail. Nicolas Sarkozy "governs by effects of announcement, without thinking, in a disorderly way, without taking into account the consequences, or even the law.". "And therefore, ultimately, it leads no reform in his term," he complained.

Right, those who were not convinced by the sudden conversion of the head of the State ecology have found voice. The UMP member of the North, Christian Vanneste, openly welcomed yesterday the veto of the wise men, wishing that it pushes the Government to "renounce" a measure "complex" and "disadvantage" economic activity. Most parliamentarians, who had already dragged feet to vote the carbon tax in the fall, could further down the line to an even broader device. Especially if it should apply to social categories traditionally acquired right as farmers. All in a few weeks of the regional elections.