You can't exclude anything, not even a split.

It would be in their interest to designate their candidate for 2007 as soon as possible so the party can rally around one person. The problem is that there is no obvious leader. It's a situation of great fragility.

Don't look for legal, economic or logical coherence in this ? because there is none. Its goal is strictly political: defuse a month of crisis by letting everyone win a little, and no one lose.

If the conflict drags on or gets worse, even though the head of state has spoken, it will become very tricky for him, and the end of his mandate will be very dark.

The strikes will have an impact on the next steps. The street has a more important dimension in France than in other countries because we don't have the political infrastructure for dialogue.

This thing, from the beginning, is a story that doesn't hold any water. It's a very small thing, and it isn't really this issue that we are fighting today.