one who launched the offensive against his continued the UMP

It is the other upcoming redesign. And it is in the eyes of Nicolas Sarkozy, just as important as that which will affect the Government. Less than two years of the presidential election, the head of State wants to revive the UMP. Still needs find the right man. Do trust Jean-François Copé, human hurry, offer the François Fillon, the secret apparatus, or maintain his position with Xavier Bertrand, the dedicated. These are the assumptions currently under study in the Elysee Palace, watching remotely each and other positions. "In the current set of picture puzzle, it's the key issue," said a Minister who insists: "the day where you give the keys of the party, you give the keys to your own life."

Jean-françois copé, the engaged

Their relations have long been strained; can walk hand in hand For Nicolas Sarkozy, propel Jean-François Copé is both tempting and risky. The head of the Group of UMP deputies and his generation France club Jean-François Copé has demonstrated its dynamism and its ability to contribute ideas. "I have a brand," he boasts. On the other hand, well sarkozystes still doubt his good faith, in a little surjouée his promise to do everything to ensure the re-election of the leader of the outgoing State. The leader of the UMP Deputies has certainly changed his gun to shoulder and openly covets the party, he who had sworn that he "does backfilling not" of his position in the Assembly, since "members friends" "elected it their head for five years". The question remains: has already candidate for 2017, Jean-François Copé real interest in a victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 "If you give him the keys to the party, think to make a double", had slipped Jean-François Copé at the head of State, when he had told the UMP Xavier Bertrand. The current spokesperson Deputy majority formation, Dominique Paillé, has already warned: "if Jean-François Copé takes the UMP, unnecessary to keep a duplicate: it will have already changed the locks."

François fillon, ally

The Fillon the Secretariat-General of the UMP hypothesis, proposed by Nicolas Sarkozy, "solves many problems at the same time", says a Minister. More légitimiste as Jean-François Copé and so popular that he among parliamentarians, François Fillon who was national Secretary of the federations of the RPR, knows the partisan mechanics. He gave no indication about its intentions but have input, dixit a close, an "authority" on the movement. The arrival of a Prime Minister, outgoing head of the UMP would not mean as a repudiation of Xavier Bertrand. And, even if 55 of the French would like to see François Fillon remain Prime Minister according to a poll Ifop for the "JDD", give the UMP would, presumably in the Elysee Palace, a way for Nicolas Sarkozy, to take into its fold a man that appears more and more as a remedy to the right. Well there were clashes between the President and the head of the Government, but this last (almost) always eventually to bow. For the future, the question is: If François Fillon takes the reins of the UMP, will accept to be as disciplined at Matignon, while it now takes pleasure to assume its "differences" with Nicolas Sarkozy And, will he undertake on behalf of another, to the thankless task of host of a political machine Even among relatives, opinion is divided.

Xavier bertrand, the crony

The risks inherent in options Copé and Fillon could eventually lead the head of State to choose the status quo. Let the Member of the Aisne, his former campaign spokesman and former Minister of labour at the head of the party present for Nicolas Sarkozy a advantage: Xavier Bertrand is fidelity without fault. Since 2007, and even more since it has been propelled to the Presidency of the UMP in 2009, the ex-Chirac supporter put his in the head of State. Without never deviate from the line, or heard another music that the Chief of the State, regardless of changes of partition. But Xavier Bertrand is still the best position to operate the war machine that must be the UMP in a presidential campaign Even in the very close of Nicolas Sarkozy, some in doubt. The Secretary-General is undoubtedly well discharged the ungrateful task to the Tower of the federations to encourage them. But he was unable to stem the decline in the number of members and little came to populate the box ideas. Especially, it failed to offset, as wished by the Elysee, the influence made by Jean-François Copé... one who launched the offensive against his continued the UMP.