"My wife said to me that..." "a pal sent to me a SMS for..." Fortunately that the Socialists in favour of yes with the European Constitution have friends, wives, partners or children who were, Thursday evening, in front of television to look at Jacques Chirac. And their statement what they thought of the service of the head of the State on TF1 Because, if not, they would not have an opinion... And as much were indeed in meeting or in public meeting to defend yes, they have a good excuse: "I could not look at it. I all the same will not comment on an emission which I did not see ", they say.

Consign. With less than this silence does not say any long on the embarrassment of the PS. "I put myself at their place. What do you want that they say? Nor that it was good, not to give the feeling that they support it. Nor that it was bad, except drawing a ball in the foot from yes ", a Socialist in favour of... not comments. As of Wednesday, at the time of the weekly committee of countryside, the direction of the PS had stopped its strategy: "No how." Friday, the entourage of François Holland confirmed: "One will not start to comment on the countryside of Jacques Chirac." The Socialists have indeed sufficient evil to deal with their not to interfere itself that with the head with the State. Holland, the first secretary of the PS, will undoubtedly benefit from its speech, Saturday in Toulouse, to answer the intervention of the President, but it will only do it "in hollow", prevents its entourage.

The instruction of silence nevertheless was swallowed by certain socialist or elected tenors of left. As of Friday morning in the Parisian one, the socialist Daniel Vaillant, faithful ex-minister of Lionel Jospin, considered that the head of the State "had done his work" and that "one will see in the future if it were convincing". Christophe Girard, assistant green with the culture of the mayor of Paris, as declared to him as "an emission, whatever is the format, cannot be enough to convince, but contributes to it". Less positive, Pierre Moscovici, national secretary of the PS in charge of the international relations, estimated that it "remains much of work to make". Jacques Chirac, "neither decisive nor bad", , according to him, showed himself "hesitant. However, in this business, there is no half-measure ". Anonymously, certain Socialists pro-yes express themselves in a rawer way: "It was planted", even it was "pitiful".

Lampions. On arrival, the direction of the PS is convinced that the head of the State "did not make move a socialist voice". That this job, in any event, falls on to him, each one having to mobilize its own electorate. A leader sees even in the good behaviour of the TV rating, Thursday evening, a reason to remain optimistic. "Everyone can say, on the air of the lampions: "It was shit", on arrival, 8 million French looked at the emission. The stake, it was to insert in the arena half of the opinion which was without opinion ". "the ice-barrier is thawed out", wants to believe a deputy.

The grass. For the Socialists favorable to the European Constitution, the President also déminé two arguments of the partisans of not. Initially by ensuring that a renegotiation of the treaty will be, according to him, impossible. Then, by declaring that it would not resign in the event of victory of not. Did it cut grass under the foot of a vote-sanction against the government? Holland wants to hope for it. "Each one understood that Jacques Chirac will remain until 2007", it in the Dispatch of the South of this Saturday declares. Assessment: Julien Dray, spokesman of the PS, feel that "it occurred something" Thursday evening. Without it knowing really what...