The Socialists are never based or then not long

The Socialists are never based or then not long. The threshold of the new year barely crossed, the Deputy-Mayor of Evry and candidate for the Socialist primary, Manuel Valls, shook the staff of the Rue de Solferino in is taking a "marker" of left: 35 hours. Indeed, Sunday, he explained that, if the left back to power in 2012, it would "unlock the 35 hours" to allow the French to "work more and better work", incorporating in it a formula of the Secretary General of the UMP, Jean-François Copé. "Should increase by two or three hours the legal duration of work and wages even, said the Member of the"echo"." All this should obviously be negotiated with the social partners. This would be additional room for manoeuvre to get out of the very French blockade on wages and labour. It would also be a way to reduce the State budget.

A devastating debate

Of course, if the right strikes relentlessly the 35-hour is pleased to have a Maverick in the PS (read below), the left takes red ball. "Some would be better to remain silent rather than continuing to score goals against their camp," said Pierre Laurent, national Secretary of the PCF. François Chérèque, Secretary General of the CFDT spoke of "stupidity". The direction of the body around Martine Aubry is PS, "the Lady of 35 hours". Yesterday morning, Benoît Hamon, spokesperson and representative of the left wing of the party, invited Manuel Valls "to return to the right path." And call the candidates in the primaries of the PS to "reverrouiller the ego". Indeed, the statements made by Manuel Valls are part of a strategy of demarcation for the primary. Like François Hollande, who is not yet declared, Manuel Valls wants to embody a "realistic" line that oppose the more utopian assumed by Martine Aubry. "Strauss-kahnien" Pierre Moscovici said on LCI "posture" of Manuel Valls, referring to "primary effect". "". "The string is big," also found Benoît Hamon holding that Manuel Valls "is any, any, all, alone on the subject."

If the statements made by Manuel Valls disorder, his critics are far less virulent than those that had already brought other socialist leaders. Thus, end of August 2007, François Hollande, then first Secretary, said: the 35 hours "are paid twice in 2002 and 2007. Already, the day after the defeat in 2002, Jack Lang had spoken of an "old idea". Dominique Strauss-Kahn, for its part, had regretted "Uniform Act", whereas Ségolène Royal was the 35-hour had "degraded again a little more working conditions" of the "working poor"...

But the flexibility of the right-wing governments have gone through there. What makes say to some Socialists that, in any event, the 35-hour no longer exist. "If you take all the right has done since 2002 with 35 hours, locks, if there were, were totally lifted", concluded Pierre Moscovici. Arnaud Montebourg, Socialist primary candidate, went even further. He held yesterday on Canal "35 hours no longer exist, so of course reopening this debate is unnecessary. Unnecessary perhaps, but devastating for the PS no doubt.