Jack Lang yesterday still sought to apply sponsorship

Lionel Jospin withdrew, François Hollande is still blocked and Jack Lang appears more than ever as an outsider. Five days of the date limit for the filing of nominations for the Socialist nomination for the presidential election, the landscape is is decanted from the main opposition party. The internal primary should play on a trio: Ségolène Royal, Laurent Fabius and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The most spectacular clarification came from Lionel Jospin: "Because they could gather, I don't want divide." "I will be therefore not candidate", he said yesterday morning on RTL. Promised, it does appear more "responsibility" and it is this "final". He had informed his family the previous evening and then sent a letter to the members of the PS.

End of August in La Rochelle, former Prime Minister had explained that it would be determine based on the "leaders" of the PS, "activists and opinion". Not having seen any of these three circles move in his favour, he drew the consequences. Socialist members, he explains, for Ségolène Royal and her family as "the strength of the pressure exerted on the party and the party for the opinion and likely sweetening of the internal debate will prevent a genuine confrontation of the visions of the France, the conceptions of politics and personalities," as if the internal competition was not a fairly high level for interest. It is a single motivation that it evokes not and that he has even challenged Tuesday night in a small Committee, it is fear of failure in his party, four and a half years after its elimination in the first round of the presidential election of 2002.

"It is a relief."

Lionel Jospin has taken position for any other candidate and is not safe to do so publicly in here in the November 16 vote, but it failed to specify once again that he "would not the choice" of Ségolène Royal, in which he alleged that "flatter citizens."

"Pressure" these days by the relatives of the President of the Poitou-Charentes remain across the throat: each hammered that he would do one underperformance, others that it was conducting an "aggressive" campaign, seeking to pass for a danger to the PS. This strategy has paid. And Ségolène Royal is issued to a face - to-face that she feared less for its outcome to the hardness of the test. "It's a relief," said Michel Sapin, one of its supporters, on Radio classic yesterday.

François Hollande welcomed yesterday the decision wise and of responsibility' of the former Prime Minister, and called once again to the "gathering". But first Secretary knows that he cannot embody it its last trade at the beginning of week with the let, including Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the confirmed him.

Good news for DSK

Lionel Jospin is good news for DSK whose candidacy officially expressed this morning in teal is more subject to questioning. One of his lieutenants, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, wants to believe that Lionel Jospin and his "sacrifice" "changed the climate in the PS": "The readability of the guidelines" would be now more taken into account by the members. Fabiusien Claude Bartolone is on the same wavelength when he invited the members to choose between three lines: "A line very public opinion (Ségolène Royal), a line that is more democratic (DSK) and envy line presented by Laurent Fabius, on specific proposals, which wants to give voters left to vote.".

"In any event, it is folded"

For the rest, hunting support is open. Still shattered, the jospinistes have no alternative candidate and their inclinations diverge. DSK wants to believe there is an opportunity to delight to Laurent Fabius instead of main challenger of Ségolène Royal. But the recent statements of his family against Lionel Jospin have created some heartburn. What has not escaped to Laurent Fabius, who yesterday expressed "the feeling of respect" that he based on his old rival of the Congress of Rennes. Jack Lang yesterday still sought to apply sponsorship... with orphan jospinistes. One of them, the Member for Paris Annick Lepetit, said: "in any event, it is folded." "Ségolène Royal will be probably named". Between bitterness and desire not to remain on the margins of the campaign.