He took the risk of permanently undermine its image

The European campaign was short; for François Bayrou, it lasted too long. The President of the Modem, who dreamed that his party more than the 14 and is only a few cables from the PS had just yesterday, according to estimates TNS Sofres, a disastrous 8.5 for him after its setbacks in the legislative and the municipal. It is significantly less than what had been the old UDF in 2004 (11.96). It is two times less than the Socialists, yet evil point. And this is much less that lists Europe ecology, which delighted to centrists the third place at the national level, as in most districts. In total, the Modem would have received only 6 seats in Strasbourg.

This the worst result ever recorded in the European by centrists when they were the only race was a harsh blow third man of the last presidential, which the strategy is to appear as the best alternative to Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. During the campaign, François Bayrou has made several errors, punished by voters. The first was to focus to the end on the anti-sarkozysme, is leaving him locked up in the posture of "the one who said no" as he defined himself when the environmentalists were holding out their "European dream". The second is much more serious for him. Accusing Daniel Cohn-Bendit of convenience with pedophilia an allusion to writings dating from 1975 and which had already been controversial in 2001 , François Bayrou not only did lose points to his party. He took the risk of permanently undermine its image.

"It is collective.

Even if the former leader of may 68 it was described as "shabby", Member of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques gave the feeling of losing his nerves and "typed under the belt" a man who is, like him, a European convinced. What weaken his speech on his own "humanistic values" (opposite to those of Nicolas Sarkozy) and his promise to behave if he was elected to the Elysee, "President" who reassures Aware of the danger, François Bayrou had tried Friday to plug the hole, putting his reaction on the account of the affect of his "tripe" when it comes to children, and ensuring that he had just discovered the book of Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He was not satisfied.

In the Modem, the tempers. François Bayrou "should not respond" to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, dropped Jean-François Kahn before the vote. "This is not my way of doing politics," added yesterday evening Corinne Lepage, without totally excluding one day leave the party. "If the Modem is to have a future, it must be it collective", she pinned in particular Marielle de Sarnez. On the site of the party, a user wrote: "I put me to doubt the ambition of this party." In brief remarks, François Bayrou, sounded, air has promised to "learn the lessons" of this failure, which he took his "share responsibility". The centrist will always attempt to cling to his own writings. "In politics, nothing is ever finished", he assured in a book before the 1999 European.