A national convention will take place end of May

And now, heading for 2012! Even if the large - and small - slam is missed (with the loss of the meeting, one probable, Guyana and the victory of Georges Frêche in Languedoc-Roussillon), the left, who scored in Corsica but did not prevail in Alsace, totalled 54.3 of the vote. Progress in the country since she had received 49.9 of the vote in 2004. It remains very majority in the management of the French regions. Martine Aubry has considered that "the French gave a victory without precedent to the lists of the assembled left" and congratulated all the Chairmen of region but also all "partners of the left and ecology". The left will have to capitalize on this result and show that it is not only of a local parenthesis but the harbinger of tomorrow singing.

"Champion" with 67.5 Malvy

In Poitou-Charentes, Ségolène Royal, who faced the list led by Dominique Bussereau, was successfully re-elected, with more than 61 of the vote. A score however lower than that of the "champion" of Presidents, Martin Malvy, which won 67.5 in Midi-Pyrénées. René Souchon, in Auvergne, carries out an excellent score (59,68), and Jean-Paul Huchon in Ile-de-France and Jacques Auxiette in Pays de la Loire (57). François Patriat in Burgundy (52.6), Daniel Percheron in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais (52), Jean-Jack Queyranne in Rhône-Alpes (51), Claude Gewerc Picardie (48) and Michel Vauzelle PACA (43.5), are all five re-elected at the end of triangular.

The result obtained yesterday evening course is to the credit of first Secretary, Martine Aubry, and even if the victory is as much that of the outgoing Chairmen of region. Gérard Collomb, Senator-Mayor of Lyon, which has always been an opponent of the Mayor of Lille, has estimated that the result of the second round of regional "is a victory for the whole of the Chairmen of region". And it won't take much to make the President of Poitou-Charentes again hear its partition in solo.

En route to the primary

The Socialists are are given appointments Saturday on the occasion of a national Council (the Parliament of the party). They shall specify the timing of their renovation. In the menu, of course, the primary open. By the summer, they will have to find a consensus on the mode of appointment of their candidate for 2012. It remains then to know if these primary can be expanded to ecologists and Communists, and if they want.

The other great work is the implementation of the "new model of economic, social and ecological development" of the PS. A national convention will take place end of May. This project will form the basis for discussions with the Greens and the left Front. Martine Aubry said last week that it intended, as of today, working with its partners. The National Secretary of the Greens, Cécile Duflot, said yesterday that it wished to continue the dialogue with the left. The leader of Europe ecology Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that "all the difficulties begin, because if it is not to repeat the coup of 2004, where it loses all presidential, you really work on a project".

It seems that a new State of mind was born in this left was sometimes "diverse", sometimes "solidarity". Remains to be seen whether, as the Socialists, all have the same ambition for 2012.