The election of the president of the UMP is behind us, we have a date with a capital year 2013, without any elections, a first for 5 years. An opportunity to be seized for a united France, and not only in the UMP.
This is the story of a Frenchman and an American who suddenly find themselves teleported to the middle of the African savannah. Suddenly arriving, one from his office in La Défense, the other from Manhattan, they are surprised and disoriented, as if they had just crossed time and space in a flash. Questioning each other with their eyes, trying to understand what is happening to them, they begin to scrutinise their surroundings, look around them, look for explanations. And in fact, some people around them have noticed their arrival. Behind a grove of shrubs, disturbed in their nap, several lions and lionesses slowly come out and take an interest in the new visitors, like one would in a new restaurant. The approach is slow, poised, athletic, but the threat quickly becomes clear.
Faced with the danger, the American reacts immediately, and takes out a pair of trainers from a small bag miraculously teleported with him. Instinctively, as if he had already rehearsed this situation, he quickly untied his shoes and put on his trainers. Next to him, the Frenchman, a little tetchy, analyses the situation, and, keeping a worried eye on the group of beasts that is organising itself, has observed the reaction of his American neighbour. Surprised and amused by this agitation, he ends up asking him, a little mockingly and haughtily: "Do you really think you'll run faster than them? The American just takes the time to answer: "No! but faster than you!
Jean-François Copé did the "catch me if you can" trick to François Fillon, but above all, it is now time to run as a team, to get out of our conflicts, quarrels and debates to go into project mode, into conquest mode, united behind one banner and one objective: the French project.
At the end of 2012, a long political sequence that began almost two years ago with the launch of the presidential campaign comes to an end. These campaigns have been times of division, conflict, and opposition that is often sterile because of dogmatism or egos. Hollande versus Sarkozy, Copé versus Fillon, Mélenchon versus Le Pen, but also growth versus austerity, or cleavages and fractures between the French, over tax exile or marriage for all. This sequence has more often opposed than proposed.
Meanwhile, the difficulties persist, the solutions struggle to be renewed, public opinion criticizes a barely elected government and is increasingly disassociated from the effort required (cf Ifop/JDD weekend), the government continues to explain that the new loss of a triple A is of no consequence, that there is nothing to worry about, thus rediscovering the Mitterrandian tones. During these internal storms and navel-gazing, the re-elected President Obama is on a tour of the Pacific. A diplomatic tour, but also and above all an economic and political one: while conquering markets, they are also working to preserve their leadership, they are moving forward, they are running ... faster than us.
Since the last presidential election we have had one or more elections per year: presidential 2007; legislative 2007; cantonal 2008; municipal 2008; senatorial 2008; European 2009; regional 2010; cantonal 2011; senatorial 2011; presidential 2012; legislative 2012!
For the first time in 5 years, we will not have elections in 2013! Let's take full advantage of this political and climatic lull to get ourselves collectively into gear.
The objective is to bring people together, and not just the UMP. The time is now for opposition, surely, but for proposals, certainly more so, for terms of office that are as constructive as the campaigns have been devastating.
English 
French