It should except surprise throw the sponge

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

If he decides to compete, the Director General of the IMF has not before him boulevard that he could expect. As in 2006, should find its road to the Elysée Ségolène Royal, a tough opponent who has already made the dust. It is not completely excluded that the President of the Poitou-Charentes renounces to deal with it if the polls are not too negative. "When the time comes, I will see with Dominique what is the best winning device", she assured yesterday on France Inter. But in the meantime, to carve out a space election with Socialist over DSK sympathizers, Ségolène Royal could be prone to "gauchiser" profile, that she has already started a little on the issue of pensions. "Droitisant" a little more by affected the image of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Martine Aubry

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The entry in the running of Ségolène Royal makes the position of the first Secretary of the PS very uncomfortable. It will be difficult to the Mayor of Lille to wait until summer to reveal his intentions to 2012, as it provided up to now. More the President of the Poitou-Charentes will make campaign, more Martine Aubry will be pressed to say whether it intends to be candidate or not. As criticism on too late the primary schedule repeat the PS since a few weeks. Failure to push the first Secretary of the PS to get out of the wood, the impromptu arrival in the race of Segolene Royal could perhaps lead to his decision earlier than expected.

François Hollande

He isn't officially a candidate in the primaries, but, in fact, started among the first in the battle by multiplying the proposals (on taxation or education including) and openly campaigning. Outpaced by Martine Aubry and DSK in opinion polls, the former first Secretary of the PS was relying on this early introduction to catch up. Las, at a time when efforts began to bear fruit in opinion polls, it loses its singularity with the entry in the high-profile running of his old campaign: Corrèze MP is no longer the single "elephant" in the race.

The outsiders declared

Main architect of the Organization of the primary to the PS, Arnaud Montebourg has applied for membership is ten days. "Free electron" in the Socialist Party, without great support in the apparatus, the President-elect of Saône-et-Loire will have difficulty to exist to a Ségolène Royal, who is at least also atypical him. Close to the former candidate for the presidential to the Reims Congress, Manuel Valls will be the same kind of problem, especially if the President of the Poitou-Charentes is the theme of "just order", thus trivializing his speech decomplexed on security. Except to multiply strokes of brilliance, these two quadras are likely to be quickly relegated to the second plan.

The potential outsiders

Jean-Louis Bianco is likely to be the first victim of the entry in the running of Ségolène Royal. Tried for several months to start in the race, this close to the President of the Poitou-Charentes welcomed yesterday the announcement of his candidacy and has indicated that he would decide "at the beginning of next year". It should, except surprise, throw the sponge. By contrast, Pierre Moscovici and Gérard Collomb strauss-kahniens will be encouraged to occupy the ground and leave the doubt their intentions as long as possible, while DSK decides. History of not to let the candidacies of Ségolène Royal and François Hollande take root. Even though their visibility will be reduced from the latter. The problem is somewhat the same for Benoît Hamon, the leader of the left wing of the party, which could feel the need to report if Martine Aubry is not the primary candidate. Pending the decision of the Mayor of Lille, the spokesman for the PS has interest in maintaining the suspense and stay in first line. It is, indeed, something yesterday to play down the arrival in the race of Segolene Royal, declaring themselves "not really surprised" by the announcement "logical and predictable".