The right suggests that we would have thrown the sponge

The review by the Assembly of the draft law on the privatization of GDF could go beyond the 28 September, delaying all the solemn vote scheduled on October 3. And, as announced Monday Jean-Louis Debré, President of the Assembly, with the consent of the Presidents of PS and FCP group. "The right suggests that we would have thrown the sponge." "There is nothing", said yesterday the President of the FCP in the Assembly group, Alain Bocquet.

Upon his arrival in the parliamentary days of PS in Nantes, François Hollande has, for its part, said: "For us, there is no time limit." "October 3 is a deadline, it may be a more later", he repeated, however fixing a date deadline: "In any event, from October 17, is the debate on the budget, and here it is incompressible." Enough bad mood, the President of the PS in the Assembly, Jean-Marc Ayrault, group had to take the same speech to the rostrum. "It is not about two or three days", completed in whisper, stating that everything would depend on how goes the debate on article 10, which is falling from the State in the capital of SFM under the fateful bar of 50.

"This may offend people."

This new thriller has two causes: the inability of the left to assume an "agreement" with the Government seven months of the presidential election, and internal divisions in the PS within two months of the choice of candidate for 2007. As early as Tuesday, in a group meeting, Laurent Fabius had expressed his opposition to battle the PS on SFM, change to pass the obstruction to the negotiation of a date of completion of the work. He reiterated it yesterday: "It is not question that facilitates the adoption of this dangerous text." Do not give the feeling that there is an agreement between the PS and the Government, if it includes more nothing.

In a party where presidential rivalries were reduced to nil all reflex of solidarity, other elected officials were engaged. For consistency. Conduct a frontal battle then stop, it can hit people", said Daniel Vaillant, close to Lionel Jospin. "Stop net as this fight, I am perplexed," prudently dropped Jack Lang. "It is not very glorious, I fear that this is"combinazione"," explained, more incisive, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, close to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Without "forcing the dose" to the Senate

In their defence, François Hollande and Jean-Marc Ayrault have highlighted an imperative: If agree with Jean-Louis Débré on a solemn vote, it was put Nicolas Sarkozy and his family "before their responsibilities" in pushing them to vote a text on which they had doubts.

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis does not agree: "It is not policy on such a topic according to Sarkozy." "If you think that this text is wrong, it was necessary to continue and let the Government", even suffer the use of 49.3 (adoption of the text without a vote). Laurent Fabius is not previously: "Did we not to decide on the procedure."

This shuffling has also led members to question the validity of their tactic of departure, the obstruction. "The first formula was perhaps excessive or brutal," said Daniel Vaillant. "130,000 amendments, is the ultra-leftism, but when a garbage, go to the end," grumbles Senator Michel Charasse. At the time, the Chairman of the group in the Senate, Jean-Pierre Bel, considering to "conduct a good battle, but without forcing the dose": "Is not to put themselves in the same trap as the Assembly." Other elected officials believe that Jean-Louis Debré "has long operated on the entire sequence."

And this is how the privatization of GDF, which was to be the plight of re-entry by the Government, turned into a lurch to the left.