What Happend To The Tawnee Stone?

De Corbeil Noisy

Both municipal elections this weekend, in Noisy-le-Sec and Corbeil-Essonnes, must be analyzed carefully. Always avoid drawing general conclusions too fast a particular case. But in this case, the similarities between the two polls, both in terms of their context as their result - a failure each time for the left - lead to reflect on what might be structural features, revealing broader trends.

In recent years, elections were overwhelmingly favorable to the left, to the point that there was reading a daily confirmation of the discredit of the Government and the President of the Republic . The two failures simultaneous Corbeil-Essonnes and Noisy-le-Sec sounded so like a halt to what had almost become a habit. More worryingly, we're talking about popular cities, and thus all-to-population is emblematic of the PS and the left heart to have to (re) conquer; on the specific context of the election, in one case we have a mayor with a team of outgoing left and the other outgoing UMP, but several cases of tainted election having just renewed with partial repetition. Nothing helped: it is ultimately the presidential majority that wins every time, and with a significant margin (8 to 10 points) in both cities, amid low turnout.

The Communist Party having placed himself in pole position to be left to each first round, that is what its representatives back responsible for conducting unit lists in the second round. We do not bear the brunt of the defeat on them, nor on the other left forces rallied after the first round. Yet that's fit to the Left Party, their obsession with the outgoing mayor of Noisy, and explaining that she was fully responsible for the worst score in the second round, did not put enough good willingness to rally behind the candidate of the Left Front. Curious how to clear customs, and who gives without noticing a major explanatory factor on the two chess on Sunday. How to Succeed the difficult alchemy of collective dynamics in the second round, when a part of the Left - the Left Party in the first place - is now taken as goodwill systematic critique of the Socialist Party, with very short-sighted strategy? Probably allows it to scrounge for votes in a logical first round, but when it comes together well then to beat the right, it is not surprising the lack of enthusiasm for a socialist electorate tired of collect the anathemas - " Social Liberal ", "IMF partisan" and other relativizations more or less subtle the difference between PS and right. Indeed, it has sometimes felt that the Socialists have a way in recent years has incorporated these criticisms, the point of not daring to defend their identity against those incessant defendants to the tune of "leftmost than me you die. " It is a mistake: lack of a healthy relationship, where everyone assumes his position clear, it is ultimately the voters who marked their displeasure by voting with their feet.

This is not an argument shops election but the design that we have of left. for the union of the left, François Mitterrand had made possible, remains valid, it is vital that each and others defend the idea that there is one left with all the nuances and debates - legitimate - that it can shelter within it. This is not the path that is taken when manipulating and dramatize some of these nuances and differences to exist, sending little by little, in deeds if not in words, the theory of two left irreconcilable, "soft" cons "hard" "Reformist" cons "revolutionary", etc. . It was said once that step is worth a thousand programs. It is clear in this regard, concern that a delay was also made in developing a unitary approach worthy of the name at the national level, based not on mere electoral arrangements, but on a work Joint Development Program, for a pact of government for the presidential and legislative elections.

If the issues are first direct local it is nevertheless difficult, as we see, not to make the connection between these two elections, highly politicized, and the national situation. One of Paris from the left for 2012 is a powerful feeling of rejection by Nicolas Sarkozy in opinion, which is sufficient to carry a majority vote left the polls. The last local elections have also been consistently interpreted as messages sent to the displeasure of President of the Republic . If this is true in this sense, then we must, conversely, consider the two polls showed on Sunday and raise the limits of dissatisfaction: a divided left for a left clearly does not embody the national level - whatever the quality of its municipal projects - an understandable and credible real alternative to the UMP, there is no majority findable, nor Moreover mobilization (as evidenced by the low turnout).

Corbeil and Noisy must be taken seriously as two warnings. We only have much time to put us on track for a presidential victory in 2012.

Julien Dray