We must keep their eyes open to the worldThe InterUnion still have meaningOf courseJustice Department for six months on the terms of the takeover of Merrill LynchFurthermore unemployment is rising againSince midSeptember the stock markets mark wayThe trend is accentuated with September 11The face of the former Prime Minister inhibits imperceptiblyFor the State it defends itself partiallyIf it says do not yet know the universe of SMEs it starts to work with convictionIn the foreground Cordelia lying body presented faceIs François Bayrou left He stands up but one thing is certain: it is now more to the right. This weekend, Member of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques took a new step towards the PS. Return on a controversial route.
l February 2002: "no" to a single party. It is the founding act. The time where François Bayrou means its non-allégeance to what will become the UMP. A few weeks of the presidential election, the Union in movement"met in Congress in Toulouse. The tribune, the centrist wishes head to a room in Jacques Chirac and its strategy of merging of the RPR, the UDF and liberal democracy. "I hear that we all think the same thing." "We all think the same thing, if that is not more nothing", launches, under the boos.
l June 2004: the removal of PPE. Eleven UDF MEPs leave the European people's Party Group (in which sit elected UMP), as they deem more fairly faithful to their ideals federalists. This does not prevent the centrists to vote, often in the same way that the PPE.
l June 2005: the trust refused to Villepin. After refusing to participate in the Villepin Government and excluded Gilles de Robien - Minister alone, UDF - leadership bodies of the party, François Bayrou does not take part to the vote of confidence. A first. But nine of 31 centrist deputies vote "Yes", contrary to the advice of the party.
l October 2005: the budget opposition. The majority of 31 deputies UDF François Bayrou and Hervé Morin, vote against the party "recipes" of the Finance Bill. "A clearly asserted independence intake", says the Chairman of the party.
l May 2006: censorship. François Bayrou crossed the Rubicon. For the first time, they are voting for a motion of censure tabled by the left against a right-wing Government. More than half of its members do not. "We are so far gone in decay, argues, that need to collect, not only at the centre, but to the right, left.This will be his leitmotif during the presidential campaign.
l May 2007: everything except Sarkozy. In the Entre-Deux-tours presidential election, François Bayrou deploys as much as possible to the centre-left, building already on the defeat of Ségolène Royal. After having announced the creation of a new party, the Béarnais admits that he would not vote "for Nicolas Sarkozy". Almost all of its troops in the Assembly drop out.
l January 2008: heavy artillery. In his greetings to the press, François Bayrou denounces the "whirling disease policy" of Nicolas Sarkozy, his "monarchic derives" and its values: "strength, money and the peopolisation society."
l may 2009: the pamphlet. Five weeks of the European, François Bayrou publishes a new book, "abuse of power". A charge against Nicolas Sarkozy, accused of wanting to carry out the France "where it has always refused to go": "never democracy porta worse name."
l September 2009: tense hand. In the wake of Marielle de Sarnez, Francois Bayou reaches out to the PS, which he made an offer of dialogue, while refusing to participate in primary. "There are two camps, he said: those who sign to the current regime lasted ten years and change."
