There may be an early work of acculturation

The crisis, Nicolas Sarkozy is a "Fireman" (as the Socialist Party), a "good manager" (according to the German press) or a new De Gaulle (as it implies itself)

PASCAL PERRINEAU. A "mix" of the three. A firefighter, surely, to a concern of the incredibly strong opinion. His qualities as "crisis manager" have been recognized everywhere in Europe. Many have even been reassured to see that the crisis erupted at a time when the EU had this type of President. Of course, Nicolas Sarkozy is not alone, and Gordon Brown's proposals have undoubtedly contributed to its very good image. For the Gaullist reference, I am more doubtful. But it is clear that a significant portion of the view is still in operation in the register of the human Angel. The President has much played surjoué on the register, also destabilizing its liberal wing.

DENIS MUZET. I would like to come back on this crisis. After the succession of disasters that we have experienced in 2005 Asian tsunami, terrorist attack in London, Hurricane Katrina in America, avian flu, etc. , the French had in 2008 sense of a return to global chaos. With "subprime", there is the idea, more than ever, that which comes by far is likely to impact that globalization is dangerous. Awareness of the seriousness of the situation was born of the speech by Nicolas Sarkozy in Toulon. And, to that effect that it has sensationalised outlets it, to establish the shock. From that time, people were overwhelmed by the events and their coverage. They have difficulty understanding what is happening. They were overthrown, same top below, I would say even "without top-bottom": Parisot condemns golden parachutes, Sarkozy made the praises of the State. A world upside down!

To which policies have contributed, so...

D. M. risk was that the policies are themselves swept away by the wave, because the opinion the judge responsible for the excesses of liberalism with the bankers. Instead, Nicolas Sarkozy has managed to appear not as the culprit, but as the Savior. He did so by deploying the recipe which had market one of the country across the globe: the hyperactivisme. It is, deploys a mad energy the rescue of Dexia at 5 o'clock in the morning is the founding act of presidential reactivity and there has been, since then, a firework of words and actions. Sarkozy is a Savior, but it is also an alchemist. He was severely criticized on its balance sheet and that is that a renewed confidence begins; It was equated with liberalism, and this is that it appears in protector of the French and guarantee the return of the State.

If this change of image was, is this not also that Nicolas Sarkozy has always played on multiple tables at the same time

P. P. This is true, Alchemy needs to achieve to awaken something that has always been present in Nicolas Sarkozy: its ability to be both liberal and statist. Moreover, what strikes me in the investigations, it is dissociation of image in people. A portion of voters considers that it is dealing with a true pattern of the France team on the outdoor stage. And these same individuals may have a significantly different picture on the domestic scene. But for the moment, they seem to consider that the essential drama plays on the outdoor stage: that is, they say, that the political power must provide its response to the financial crisis. And, for the moment, there is a level of satisfaction which goes further, including on the extreme left.

The outdoor stage she revealed qualities of Nicolas Sarkozy as may be useful in managing the internal situation

P. P. In reality, are especially of the qualities that have resurfaced, which had its strength in 2007 but had scrambled last year. The French had the feeling that the intimate scene was polluting the public scene. That said, the process of reconstruction of the image began well before the financial crisis, on a more sovereign, prospective, protective function. The crisis has played a role of Accelerator: everything happened as if the outdoor stage allowed him to reconnect with the virtues of the function. It gives the impression to be a pilot in the plane, find the authority expected of a President of the Fifth Republic. It is a President, on the Caisse d'Epargne, leaving nothing pass: determination. A protective President for the nation, banks, depositors. A President in the prospective, which is trying to develop a scenario out of the crisis. And, above all, it is a hyperactive President. This is obsessive manner in inquiries: it is not known if he does, but at least it.

D. M. I daterai the reconquest of Nicolas Sarkozy at the beginning of the Presidency of the EU, on 1 July. It then starts to speak to the level where the French are waiting for the policy: the global level. Because, in our investigations, people talk more and more today of what they saw in Africa

or in Asia, on television the images of the riots they identify with the middle classes worldwide are threatened by the price of raw materials or oil. From July 1, therefore, Nicolas Sarkozy behaves in a global player, it is absent from France, less a nose on the handlebars, takes the height. And it is up to the first plan, in September, during the crisis, re-emerging with delight the omniprésident, which is fighting on all fronts at the same time, to plans at the four corners of the world, while a year ago he proposed to the four corners of the country. This is the same Sarkozy it once, but a Sarkozy XXL.

More than new qualities, is therefore a multiplier Sarkozy

D. M. A Sarkozy also returning to the verb and the policy, which returned to the magic of the floor, as during the election campaign. He reiterated, "everything is possible", except that this time it is with Europe, the United States, China... In truth, Nicolas Sarkozy is now candidate for the Presidency of the world, at least symbolically. At the time when George w. Bush is ending and where a dream axis emerges: Sarkozy-Obama.

P. P. There are in the position of Nicolas Sarkozy in the modern: this President hyper - active, mobile, ubiquitous, which symbolizes the myth of the man of today and in which the French can be or dreaming for their children. There is also the former: it found the Presidential Office where Chief speaks to his people of the role of the France in the world, as did Charles De Gaulle. This is important because, through this speech, the French again to love themselves.

D. M. I will be more nuanced. Nicolas Sarkozy is not a speech to the nation, he defended these days a more modern idea that Europe can play a role, provided that it has a leader. But he had the skill to put the France in mute. Both really chairs Europe, and both he learns to make concessions, as with Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown.

He even agreed to renounce his plan Paulson to the European...

D. M. exactly. At the time, this is no longer a Sarkozy takes cover to him, but a Sarkozy who found a form of inner serenity. And who can now promise of harmony, which the French aspire. Seen in our investigations: they were favourably impressed by the image of Obama and McCain in the Office of Bush and they did not understand the failure of the PS on the rescue of the banks.

P. P. Everything happened as if, from May 2007 to July 1, 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy had tried to be a statesman in the single national framework. With the failure known: by wanting to get out of the guns of the Presidential Office, he went wrong. But the Presidency of the EU gives it a political space on which it feels much more comfortable: the European area, in which the virtues of the pedagogy and compromise are essential. It then shows an ability to draw coalitions, compromise and to evolve itself. There may be an early work of acculturation. The question is now whether if he will be able to import this France...

What are the conditions of success of this out of the crisis

D. M. hardest remains to be done. Nicolas Sarkozy will succeed the phase of reconstruction if it is capable of fulfilling the promise of harmony in the country now, both in the method of Government and between the French themselves. Taxpayers, consumers know that it will be hard. If they feel that they are the ones who pay the invoice of the leaders of the bankruptcy, the return of stick will be enormous. You will have to deploy treasures of pedagogy to explain: why is money here rather than there. What mean support to industry and tax justice. And there is a question that only the head of State can answer. Will be able to waive the omniprésidence, which was justified in times of crisis, and to return to a more partageuse President, adapted to the time of reconstruction It cannot play collective across Europe and not to play at the national level. It is now that will see, really, if the Sarkozy Alchemist known to transform lead into gold.

P. P. As much as on the domestic scene, the view is more reluctant and the system of stronger constraints due to polarization. The national game is more confined, more trapped. For now, the crisis of the left simplifies the task of the President, but the French will be extremely demanding, while just unlock billions to the banks... The expectation is high with Nicolas Sarkozy, as it is, in surveys, Fillon and Ministers. There is a new type of alloy President-government-majority to reinvent. In a few weeks to say perhaps "refounding global capitalism" was something very simple on what awaits us!