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2010-03-04T11:16:00.000-08:00

Tuesday in the countryside of regional elections, Nicolas Sarkozy was at Laon (Aisne) to try to put some balm to the hearts of servants. The reform of the State upsets, without giving satisfaction to the users.
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In a panel discussion on "Future of the Public" held at Laon (Aisne), Tuesday, March 2, Nicolas Sarkozy has tried to put some balm to the heart of officials, which he described as "dedicated "," honest "and" competent ".

Referring to the planned pension reform in the wake of regional elections, the head of state announced that it would affect the public and private sectors, while recognizing "the special public service". The amount of the pension is calculated on the salary of the last six months worked against the best 25 years for private sector employees.

"It's one thing to say to staff that they are great and another to continue to remove a post of two," responded Bernadette Groison, general secretary of the FSU.
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The report says that the UMP deputy for Haute-Marne, Francois Cornut-Gentille was back Wednesday, March 3 at the budget minister Eric Woerth, the overwhelming majority of French (66%) made the connection between state reform and research budget savings while a small minority (4%) binds modernization of public services and quality improvement.

Nearly three years after the launch of the general revision of public policies (RGPP), which translates on the ground by a reorganization of the old departmental directorates (equipment, agriculture, youth and sports etc..), public opinion remains unconvinced, as claimed by December 12, 2007 Mr. Woerth that the state reform, "is also an enhanced quality of service.

Quite the contrary: over half (53%) feel that public services have developed quite poorly in recent years. Their experienced considerable overlap with the findings of the latest annual report of Ombudsman of the Republic, Jean-Paul Delevoye (Le Monde, 22 February). This feeling of degradation of service quality is shared by a majority of French: 57%, according to a study conducted February 17 by Ipsos on behalf of the Directorate General for Modernization of the State (DGME), and even 62%, according to the survey conducted from February 12 to 15 by Opinion Way for Mr. Cornut-Gentille.

Certainly, the French clearly recognize the progress made on online services and digital administration (63%), but their decision is very negative on the waiting times at the reception, processing time or quality the management response.

Officer in October 2009 by François Fillon to identify "key expectations" of the French vis-à-vis the authorities and some indicators to respond, Mr. Cornut-Gentille remark in his report that "the public sphere collapses under indicators "and that the state produced in 1178 under the 2009 budget. "The general impression is that each department collects a plethora of information ultimately little exploited," regrets the UMP deputy.

It proposes, among other recommendations to strengthen the role of mediator and to focus the modernization of the state around a few indicators iconic, cutting and interdepartmental focus initially on time.

Minister of State reform, Mr. Woerth was announced Wednesday, following reports, the establishment of a barometer of the quality of public services to assess the home user and speed of response by administration (15 days for a letter less than five rings on a telephone call ...). Emphasis will be placed on meeting deadlines. An evaluation will be made on a number of steps considered priority issuance of identity papers, tax procedures by example. The results of these indicators will be published this summer, has promised Mr. Woerth.

Another sign of good will based on methodologies used by the private sector to improve customer satisfaction, the general direction of modernization of the state has selected ten events of life - "I renew my identity papers, I preparing my retirement, my family lost its autonomy and so on. " - Which generate a significant amount of interaction with the administration. It works to simplify each step of what remains, for many users, a real obstacle course. There is urgency.

The only thing he will check it humility, to avoid there being a player who takes the glory to him. The hardest thing is to have the grinta and combined with humility and collective responsibility. "Jean-Alain Boumsong evoked perhaps the fiasco of the Euro 2008, but the speech defender Lyons suggests that ego trip is still in vogue in the ship lights. Take my eyes ... If defense is a regular blue critics, it might be time to examine poverty recurrent offensive lines. A host of 'star of course, but no light on the ground, passes that arrive too late and a tendency to individualism that leaves the Blues pull too often white.

Ribery looks left, Henry regrets axis, Anelka is a dream leader in gaming .. And me and me and me, Jean-Alain moved, the rooster is a paper tiger. Ego, will be discussed Wednesday against Spain. It's even whole point of this confrontation at risk against the invincible Roja, European champion handily in 2008. One thing is sure the Blues will see red. It remains to be seen what opposition they will be able to offer even invented. Or how an aggregation of stars may (or may not) be a block-welded team, relentless in effort, replacing the ego by pride and the refusal of defeat.

The public lights was more accustomed to the opposite, but this time it is the France team that goes to "benchmark against the best. Take Spain today is therefore afford the opportunity to ask the question of trust. A victory against Xavier and company, and Ireland is forgotten, all hopes are permitted. A defeat, by cons, would sound the mort ... Whatever happens, this friendly match will be well one of the signifiers of the era Domenech.
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Do you think France can beat Spain on Wednesday in a friendly match?

Yes, with the return of Ribery the Blues have the means to bring down the champions of Europe.

No, the absence of defense are too many and Spain is untouchable. The Blues will lose.

A draw is possible, that would be encouraging.

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In February 2008, the Spaniards had been the team for France's traditional friendly earlier this year. They had won a match that should have ended in a draw, and the Blues were quick to point out that the result was irrelevant, that the performance was interesting, and so on. What lights did not see was that the Spaniards had won so much more than friendly: they had started their moult, they became a team. "Our victory in Malaga (1-0) was a click, as awareness: we were now able to beat the big teams", explained Iker Casillas, goalkeeper of the Seleccion. A few months later, the Spanish captain lifted the European Cup in the Ernst-Happel stadium in Vienna, after the victory in the final against Germany (1-0). While Jean-Alain and his pals were in front of their TV.
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Experience around you. Say the word Duralex. This is the sequence immediately nostalgia. Years of school meals in the canteen, the glass bottom of which decrypts a number (1 to 48) giving the child a hypothetical age, or forces the oldest at the table for the chore of jug of water. Then the "experiments" conducted by the child become student or student to test the resistance of these glasses called "unbreakable" by counting the number of bounces before it burst.
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"Duralex is a brand that belongs to a collective history. It is very popular in the best sense of the term," said Denis Gancel, owner of design agency communication and W & Cie. But "unfortunately, says he, it is also part of phoenix brands that have experienced mixed fortunes and are reborn constantly" .. A "brand phoenix tossed a buyer at the other end of globalization over the past fifteen years. A company that saw its melt strength and is now trying to save an industrial tool and know-how "Made in Loiret. A tough one to the time of de-industrialization of France and relocation.

But also, paradoxically, a fight "served" by the crisis: "A quality glasses Duralex is their resistance. In an era of prosperity, it can be a disadvantage. But in more difficult times, it becomes an advantage, "the British daily The Independent, which recently devoted a page and an editorial in the rebirth of the company. Duralex symbol of modesty found years of recession?

Like the glass thrown violently to the ground to test its strength, the company that manufactures it has suffered, too, multiple shocks. What to leave in pieces. And yet, in La Chapelle-Saint-Memin (Loiret), a few miles from Orleans, the flame still burns glassware. In this case, the furnace where the glass is heated to 700 degrees before pouring into molds where it is cooled very quickly and become glass bowl or ramekin.

In a huge building, very noisy, where only the red cast, and the brilliance of glass illuminate a very dark environment, the furnace runs day and night, seven days a week Five teams take turns to ensure its functioning. "Even when we went through turbulent times, we always made sure that the oven to continue its business," said one employee.

They are now two hundred working in La Chapelle-Saint-Memin. All want to perpetuate a story that began on this industrial site, then owned by Saint-Gobain, with the development process of tempered glass in 1939. In 1945, the brand Duralex is filed, together with an advertising slogan that will fly "Dura lex, sed lex" ( "the law is harsh, but it's the law"). The "thirty glorious years" will make his fortune. Glasses, plates and bowls resistant and inexpensive part of the panoply of cooking "modern" next to the fridge or washing machine Series. They invite themselves in canteens and in the French daily consumers in many countries. At its peak, the company employs nearly 1 500 people in the Loiret.

But gradually, the problems accumulate. A new Asian competition, models that are slow to renew itself. In 1997, Saint-Gobain decided to divest this business manufacturer of glass tableware. This is the beginning of the waltz buyers for the "old lady", as residents affectionately call the region.

First to enter the scene, the Italian glassmaker Bormioli Rocco. When Duralex buys, the company still employs about 1 000 people on two sites, in the Loiret and Rive de Gier (Loire). It displays a turnover exceeding 100 million euros. Today, employees believe that the Italian wanted only benefit from the distribution network Duralex to sell its own production.

In 2002, for the first time, the company's accounts are in the red. Bormioli Rocco mentions the closure of the Rive de Gier, but the outcry, he ended up throwing in the towel. In 2004, Duralex is assigned to an officer of the company, coupled with investors. The interlude last few months. Asphyxiated financially, the company files for bankruptcy in 2005. In late December of that year, a Turkish businessman, Sinan Solmaz, which owns distribution companies Duralex dishes in his country, made a takeover bid. New test.

Less than a year later, the liquidation threat. Late payment of social contributions, taxes and suppliers. The company focuses its Turkish markets to the detriment of its other customers, tropism Officer requires, sinks. M. Solmaz gets a reprieve, and closed the plant Rive-de-Gier in July 2007. Finally, Duralex be declared in default in April 2008. Solmaz The episode ends in pain. "The only positive aspect of this period, investment in a new furnace in La Chapelle-Saint-Memin. Well maintained, can last from ten to twelve years," admits one worker.

In summer 2008, the company in liquidation, awaits a buyer. But the many expressions of interest are slow to turn into concrete offers. Until the arrival of brothers Ioannides, Franco-British. Andrew, who has been involved Athens Duralex distribution of the Near and Middle East for twenty-six years, calls his brother Anthony, an entrepreneur who has invested in agribusiness in the United States: "This mark, c 'is his "baby", he asked me to join the project to manage the company. " Another brother Ioannides joins the adventure and the Lebanese family Boulos, distributing Duralex in Lebanon, and two executives of the company: High Gougeon, CFO, and Frederic Morin-Pay, Commercial Director.

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2010-02-22T10:47:00.000-08:00

The malicious intent is obvious at election time," explains Nouvelobs.com counsel for the head of the Socialist list in the Val d'Oise. Many complaints will be filed for defamation, violation of the presumption of innocence and violation of professional secrecy, while the papers produced by the UMP remains unclear.

Ali Soumare (AFP)

Ali Soumare (AFP)
The case of Ali Soumare, launched Friday by several elected UMP du Val d'Oise, has seen Monday, February 22 replica of primary interest. Through the voice of his lawyer, Jean-Pierre Mignard, head of the Socialists in the Val d'Oise, has described the release of Francis and Sébastien Delattre Meurant, "process despicable". "The malice was evident during elections," said the lawyer interviewed by Nouvelobs.com, indicating that his client would file a complaint "in the course of the week" for defamation and breach of the presumption of innocence.
"I intend to request the opening of an administrative investigation for breach of confidentiality," he said about the charges against Ali Soumare committed in 2009 according to the statement, which would have been an order on February 16, three days before sending the statement by Francis and Sébastien Delattre Meurant.
Without denying the conviction which has been in 2002 - for acts committed in 1999 when he was aged 19 - Ali Soumare, Mignard reminded me that it had "been the subject of a pardon and it was most likely placed on the criminal record of [his] client. "
"How is it that makes public order criminal who has so far not been sent, while time limits are still at large, and when we do not even know if the same person? "master Mignard questions after stating that his client denied three of the convictions which he was charged. "The statement speaks of a conviction in 2004, nobody has ever heard and has never been served on my client," says he, adding: "One wonders whether it exists and if it really is not another person.
There are indeed areas of shadow in the statement jointly signed by Francis and Sébastien Delattre Meurant, first it is impossible to know whether these convictions are real and especially, how those documents "very accurate", according to spokesman UMP Frédéric Lefebvre, have landed in the hands of these two mayors UMP, "police officers whose mission is to enforce the right people," said Master Mignard?

"Information ..."

While it is possible for anyone, even in a third criminal case to obtain documents relating to a conviction. Simply going to the court office where the case was tried, and give him the name of the person condemned, file number, however, optional, and the date of conviction. "This is the fastest method, but it is difficult or impossible to obtain information that is sought immediately. There is always a delay because the clerk must make a number of research," says on the High Court of Pontoise. It is also possible to obtain this information by completing Form No. 12823 * 01, found on the Internet. They succeed in this case by mail, which requires a longer period.
However, as stated in the Form No. 12823 * 01, in any case it is possible to obtain these documents when the case has not been tried or when time limits are still at large, "at least d having a lawyer a party to the case who agree to provide parts, "explains still Nouvelobs.com the High Court of Pontoise.
Now in its news release, Francis and Sébastien Delattre Meurant mention of the charges against Ali Soumare allegedly committed in 2008 and whose proceedings would be "ongoing". Others, again, just as the order of February 16, 2010, including time limits are not yet extinct.
The last conviction, dating from October 2009, two months in prison for acts of rebellion to agents of the police, had not even been served with court services Pontoise Ali Soumare, was surprised the Advocate.
"Call was made immediately that [Monday, February 22] morning," continued Mr. Mignard stressing that the period of 10 days to appeal a conviction ran from the date the decision is served.

"Testimonials"

A town hall Franconville last Friday, we Sideline: "What interests us are the facts." Referring now the "sources" when he is not as "informants," we prefer to refer to the methods "legal" for obtaining such documents. Contacted by Nouvelobs.com Sebastien Meurant explained obtaining this information because "justice is rendered on behalf of the French people", adding: "We do not reveal our sources". The mayor of Saint-Leu-la-Foret, however, had subsequently said to have asked to see the decisions of justice regarding the "ongoing process", he explains that "testimony" from several individuals were collected. No further details while the communication service to the City Council on Monday welcomed Franconville "to go faster than some journalists" referring to a court settlement to the House of Justice and the Law "Villiers-le-Bel , unverifiable information Monday for closing services.
The spokesman Frederic Lefebvre UMP for its part is not more specific. "Just go on the internet" or "in the court" to verify this information, he said on RTL, inviting "all the listeners to do." He said "this is what makes politicians, and they found a number of highly accurate. "They have recovered copies of judgments," he said, and obviously, his last conviction dated back to "15 days or three weeks" before his inauguration by the PS. "But this is not a conviction, there are many" other, "said the spokesman for the UMP.
On Monday, the press service of Francis Delattre continue despite any statement by his office: "The declarations smokescreen professionals indignation can undermine the reality of judgments and judicial decisions concerning the head of the Socialist list in Val-d'Oise.
"He drove without a license and obviously he was sentenced for that but there are many other things, including theft, robbery with violence, therefore, serious things," he said, referring to a conviction denied by Ali Soumare
In good year, the deputy spokesman for the UMP Dominique Paillé for his part explained to pending cases, that "victims were informed of the procedures and were" held no secrets.
A sentence of ten years old, and it is forbidden to talk publicly because of rehabilitation, three convictions, all denied by the head of the list PS - one in which the proceedings would be "ongoing" and another whose the order has been sent to the person himself - and finally, the evocation of a conviction for which Ali Soumare appealed ... With their joint statement, Mayor Francis Franconville Delattre and the mayor of St. -Leu-la-Foret Sebastian Meurant are at least managed to sow confusion in the socialist countryside.

Alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to future initiatives to overcome the stalled peace process between Israel and Palestine. "Everything must be done to resume discussions," he pleaded Monday. "If there is no discussion, conference or not, we take the risk, I want to tell the international community, a third intifada," said Nicolas Sarkozy during a press conference Paris with Mahmoud Abbas. The French president then said to have agreed with the Palestinian president on "initiatives", he declined to give details.

Nicolas Sarkozy has not developed the idea of recognizing a Palestinian state proclaimed quickly, without agreement with Israel on the border issue. A proposed route during the weekend by the head of the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. This has just put on the table "a number of possible alternatives if it does not unfreeze things," said the French president, refraining from any direct support against his minister.

"A real Palestinian State"

"What we want is a real state, a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, with an exchange of territories, as has been said," Nicolas Sarkozy has insisted. He said the current situation is "even more incomprehensible and unacceptable that everyone knows the terms of a final peace agreement." These terms "two-state, Jerusalem as the capital of two states, a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, an exchange of territories, a discussion on the refugees. Asked still on the assumption of a unilateral declaration by the Palestinians their state, Nicolas Sarkozy said: "We would at this time (...) what would."

From his side, Mahmoud Abbas praised the approach of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who modernized the administration of the West Bank, attracting private investors in order to lay the foundations for a viable Palestinian state in 2011. "We have released the culture of peace instead of culture of violence in our territories," pleaded the Palestinian president.

During the two-day visit to Paris of Mahmoud Abbas, French officials have sought to reaffirm the role that the EU should play alongside the Americans, they believe in a peace process stalled. In an article published Monday in Le Monde, Bernard Kouchner and his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos, suggested that the Europeans propose a "timetable for negotiations" beyond the proximity talks proposed by the United States, "today necessary but insufficient. " This schedule would address all final status issues (security, borders, water, refugees, Jerusalem). They also proposed that the EU "will host a summit for peace to consolidate and control this dynamic, and encourage the resumption of contacts for a permanent peace between Syria and Lebanon and Israel."

You're watching too many James Bond films, "said Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs in response to suspicions of involvement in his country in the murder of a framework of Hamas.

Avigdor Lieberman (AFP)

Avigdor Lieberman (AFP)
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman dismissed Monday 22 in Brussels on charges of involvement in his country in the murder of a part of Hamas in Dubai by launching the tone of the quip: "I think you look too of James Bond films.
He was confined to this single statement to journalists after a meeting with European Parliament President, Polish Jerzy Buzek.
The visit of Avigdor Lieberman to Brussels was long planned. But it turned into a marathon in an attempt to appease the wrath of the Europeans after the assassination of one of the founders of the armed wing of Hamas, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, in a hotel in Dubai.

Espionage

According to the Dubai Police, members of the commando responsible for the murder carried fake passports British, Irish, French and German, which has embittered the country concerned and the entire European Union.
UAE Investigators are convinced that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, is behind this operation.
Before seeing Jerzy Buzek, Avigdor Lieberman met with the Foreign Ministers of Ireland, Michael Martin, Britain, David Miliband, and Spanish Miguel Angel Moratinos, whose country holds the EU presidency. He had dinner in the evening with the chief diplomat of the EU, Britain's Catherine Ashton.
In all, he asserts that "there is no evidence that Israel is involved" in the killing of Hamas leader, as he reiterated in a statement issued that day by his ministry in Jerusalem.
"There are many gratuitous accusations against Israel," he said in the text.

ABIDJAN - The protests against the regime of Laurent Gbagbo, who has once again postponed sine die the presidential election originally due in 2005, continued Monday in Côte d'Ivoire.
Confrontation between security forces and opposition demonstrators in Toumodi in central Cote d'Ivoire. The demonstrations against the regime of Laurent Gbagbo, who has once again postponed sine die the presidential election originally due in 2005, continued Monday in Côte d'Ivoire. (Reuters / Luc Gnago)

Confrontation between security forces and opposition demonstrators in Toumodi in central Cote d'Ivoire. The demonstrations against the regime of Laurent Gbagbo, who has once again postponed sine die the presidential election originally due in 2005, continued Monday in Côte d'Ivoire. (Reuters / Luc Gnago)

The main road leading from Abidjan, the country's economic powerhouse, in Yamoussoukro, political capital, was cut in several places by protesters, found a Reuters correspondent.

In Daloa center of cocoa production, including Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer, opponents have set fire to tires and threw stones at security forces, who responded with tear gas.

At Abobo, a suburb north of Abidjan, a Reuters cameraman saw police disperse demonstrators, including at least one carrying a machete.

A Toumoudi, south of the capital, some 2,000 protesters marched peacefully in front of the police and military not intervened.

The troubles have become almost daily in Côte d'Ivoire since President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission February 12.

Friday, at least five demonstrators were killed and dozens others injured by security forces in Gagnoa, south-east Yamoussoukoro during a rally against the initiatives Gbagbbo.

Popular anger is fueled by the procrastination of the scheme on the presidential election scheduled five years ago but continually rejected on the grounds that the voter does not behave as Ivorians "ethnic".

This issue of the Ivorian is central to the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire since the failed attempt of coup against Gbagbo in 2002, which resulted in a de facto division of the country between North and South.

In general, the events triggered by Gbagbo's decision to dissolve the independent electoral commission are conducted peacefully, with the exception of Friday Gagnoa.

But the tension in the former French colony until the formation of a new government, including former rebel northerner Guillaume Soro is expected to announce shortly the composition.

Gbagbo is submitted in turn to growing international pressure, particularly from its partners in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its mediator Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, to deliver quickly track the process of political normalization.

Compaore was expected Monday in Abidjan.

Ange Aboa in Toumodi and Media Coulibaly in Abidjan, Marc Delteil serving French

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2010-02-17T11:37:00.001-08:00

After the SP requesting the resignation of Secretary of State for Overseas France, Marie-Luce Penchard. This is a UMP deputy, Patrick Balkany, said in turn that "we should punish. This is not the opinion of the Prime Minister.

The remarks of the Secretary of State for Overseas never stop causing controversy. Even within the majority. According to the UMP deputy, Patrick Balkany: "I think we should punish. I think she should be kicked out of government." For close to Nicolas Sarkozy remarks "are unacceptable from a minister of the Overseas Territories". And it never ceases to rage: "It must be explained. We can not say such things, even in a meeting in Guadeloupe. When is the Minister of Overseas, it deals with French from overseas. It not only caters to those of his department.

This is not the opinion of the Prime Minister. Indeed, François Fillon flew to the aid of his minister, Wednesday, February 17, when the government issues to the National Assembly. "Extract from a speech a sentence for attempting to discredit the government policy overseas is contrary to the spirit that I am for democracy," he said. "The truth is that Ms. Penchard is the minister of all overseas and it is also welcomed as such whenever it goes there", said François Fillon as vehement protests from the the opposition benches.

The cause of controversy

In affirming prefer Guadeloupe Minister-candidate had antagonized. Marie-Luce Penchard, number two on the list of the UMP in Guadeloupe, where it originated, said Sunday, February 14 had "wanted to serve that population, population Guadeloupe.

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Then she held a rally for regional elections in Guadeloupe, the candidate of the majority said: "We are in a budget of more than 500 million euros today for overseas, and I feel would be wrong to see this windfall Guadeloupe leave the benefit of Guyana for the benefit of meeting the benefit of Martinique.

Penchard resignation?

Immediately after the publication of his statements, the Socialist Party has demanded the "immediate resignation" of the minister. For Axel Urginea, with responsibility for Overseas Socialist Party, Secretary of State is "supposed to be in charge of all overseas, that is to say eleven communities and not a only. He considered the words of Marie-Luce Penchard "distressing as inadmissible in the mouth of a minister supposedly in charge of all overseas."

Former Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, has found the words of Marie-Luce Penchard "still a little bizarre." On France 2 he wondered: "How can a secretary of state can say 'I am only interested in the Guadeloupe'? What about Martinique, what about Guyana, what about Reunion. Before adding that "merit a resignation may, at least a good shouting match."

In a press release, the PCF said in turn that "these remarks are unacceptable (...) carry a negative view of competition between territories overseas." They said this statement "flirts dangerously with cronyism."

A context of regional elections

Luc Chatel, on RTL, was quick to relativize the words of Secretary of State. "Do not leave these words out of context. Penchard Marie-Luce was from Guadeloupe, on the campaign trail. In this case, he says, it was not Secretary of State. He added: "Attend meetings of political sensitivities of all (...) in their departments, you'll see what they say."

The interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, which carries the Secretariat of State for Overseas France, for his part, assured on LCI: "There is naturally still the minister." He stressed however, that Marie-Luce Penchard "said in his heart and his blood, there was Guadeloupe, which did not prevent him from being extremely active in serving the community as a whole ultra-marine ".

The application of PS is considered "unworthy" by the UMP

For the spokesmen of the UMP, Frédéric Lefebvre: "This little game is unworthy of PS and directly controlled by Martine Aubry who sets an example for several weeks attacking the people, by practicing the insult". For the first secretary of the PS, he said in a statement: "We need the PS stop his lies and widespread manipulation of any kind to distract the abysmal record of all its regional presidents on Taxation , security and employment "

Nicolas Sarkozy went Wednesday to the West Indies and the PS, "it is now the President of the Republic to take without delay all the consequences about which permanently disqualify the complainant whose Socialist Party calls for the immediate resignation".

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