Among the UMP troops is the embarrassment which prevails

After the Lieutenant, artillery heavy. Xavier Bertrand, Frédéric Lefebvre, Dominique Paillé and Patrick Balkany was were applied Monday to defend the legitimacy of the nomination of Jean Sarkozy at the head of the Epad, the public establishment of the defence headquarters. Yesterday, heavyweights of the Executive which are mounted to the niche in an attempt to end the controversy are: François Fillon, Valérie Pécresse, Chantal Jouanno, Nadine Morano, Luc Chatel, Adviser special of the head of State Henri Guaino, and even... Nicolas Sarkozy. "All who gives nourishment a person, without foundation, excessively, is never far", castigated the President, after his speech on the reform of upper secondary schools. Earlier, he had celebrated the creation of these schools, in 1802, which "meant: what counts in France to succeed, it is no longer to be well born, is working hard and having evidence, his studies, his work, of its value."

Its supporters and Jean Sarkozy himself argue that he was "elected" conseiller général of Hauts-de-Seine (in March 2008), "elected" head of the departmental majority (in June 2008), and that it should be "elected" head of the Epad. "Universal suffrage is no less legitimate in the Hauts-de-Seine that elsewhere", the youngest son of the President decided yesterday in the newspaper "Metro". "Feel on the acts and not on the birth certificate", ignited the Assembly - under the boos of the left - Benoist Apparu, Secretary of State for housing.

The opposition, she shouts "indecent" and "nepotism", most on the meteoric career of Jean Sarkozy, in the Department aged twenty-three-year and second year law once managed by his father. "How can we talk of Republican equality French youth", is insurgée Martine Aubry, first Secretary of the PS, denouncing the "takeover" of the Ile-de-France by the UMP. "How the head of State can imagine that our citizens will be fooled by this round of legerdemain that feels full nose (...)". the former the most archaic regime ", added Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, founder of standing the Republic.

"Clumsy initiative".

Among the UMP troops, is the embarrassment which prevails. On the one hand, it is difficult to the elected representatives of the majority party did not defend the President's son. On the other, they are worried about the impact of this "case" in the opinion, especially among right-wing voters already destabilized by the writings of Frédéric Mitterrand, the "young RSA" and experimentation of a "pool" against school absenteeism. Yesterday, two members of Parliament have left filter their irritation in the camera of the meeting of the UMP group. The first, Pierre Cardo, elected of Yvelines, alarmed this "awkward initiative" in a context of crisis where "children cannot find internship" and where "bac 5 are not employment", worried for the partial in his Department Sunday ex-judoka David Douillet in the second round of the legislative. The second, the Member of Parliament for Ille-et-Vilaine René Couanau, mocked "a problem of human resources in the Hauts-de-Seine". Gérard Longuet has estimated that the idea that Patrick Devedjian can remain at the head of the Epad until 2011 was "often shared" in the Senate UMP group over which he presides. His homo - logue in the Assembly, Jean-François Copé, chose to put its foot down. And change the subject.