The political debate is lively on the Internet

The political debate is lively on the Internet. The arguments are exchanged via the blogs who played an important role in the referendum on the draft European Constitutional Treaty in May 2005. In the coming months, "Les echos" regularly resonate in these columns the chips of the sometimes passionate discussions. In the version of the text on the website , links allow direct access to the cited blogs.

The political event of the weekend was to be the Organization of the internal proceedings of the UMP. Las! In featuring conveniently, at the same time, the rallying of Jean-Pierre Chevenement to his candidacy, Ségolène Royal has sparked new comments on blogs than his main rival.

Among the "left Republicans" sensitive to the ideas of Jean-Pierre Chevenement, the reactions are shared. On the one hand, we feel crab-wise a bitter aftertaste with a rally seen as a smoking cessation. Thus Malakine, on his blog Horizons, releasing a series of notes to express his distress and accusing Chevenement to have "lowered the Republican battle to a vulgar quest for a few positions to ensure the survival of a moribund party." But, at the same time Krysztoff, on 1984, welcomes this tactical choices which will allow, believes the political survival of Chevènement's citizen and Republican Movement (MRC), with its possible representation in the National Assembly. Notes and "policy, is not that the Ethereal world of ideas, it is also the reality of the reports of force and the choice of the optimal strategy to bring his ideas".

The discussion extends beyond the sphere of the supporters of the Mayor of Belfort. Authueil, in a note entitled way very explicit "for a plate of lentils", summed up the majority tendency, which sees in this act as the result of horsetrading between parties devices. It notes with regret: "Jean-Pierre Chevenement and Christine Boutin possess yet interesting and specific political sensitivity." I am afraid that the large candidates do not large concessions on this plan, which affadira the campaign. "Others yet, as Koz, questioned the influence of this rallying the political line defend Ségolène Royal during the campaign. The recent statements by the candidate on the independence of the European Central Bank (ECB) feed this query. Koz summarizes rather biting way under the PS - MRC agreement: "One ECB against ten constituencies." It is that it's worth much more, Europe in France.

Relitigation of the objectives or the independence of the ECB by the two leading candidates in recent weeks, is commented by a few blogs specializing in economic issues. In a note very instructive, Alain Lambert, former Budget Minister (UMP) and blogger active, recalled the economic foundations of the independence of the ECB. Other bloggers suggest they more directly political consequences of cross-statements of candidates. Verel denounces "political inconsistency" of these positions, which are of the Community institutions the scapegoats of the mediocrity of national economic policies. He sees in the offset of the acts and statements one of the causes of the victory of "no" to the referendum last year. On Telos-eu, Jean Pisani-Ferry noted for its part the counterproductive aspect of this type of connection: "Giving repeatedly the feeling that they did not adhere to the founding principles of the economic union and Monetary Union, French political leaders create the conditions that any proposal for progress of governance is now regarded with suspicion."

In General, the blogosphere seems insensitive, outside a few militant networks to relitigation of the role and action of the ECB. Austere, rapidly technical, the debate is dominated by a few tenors a former Minister, a famous economist which are probably not a very representative image of opinion public even online.