The appointment was scheduled for a long time

Trade unions marched against the pension reform today, Nicolas Sarkozy flies to the G20 in Toronto tomorrow, and yet it is an any other topic that stirs up the majority: the proliferation of cases, of greater or lesser extent, affecting the Government Ministers. Members of the UMP derive the alarm and ensure the field, they are only stopped on this: apartments Christian Estrosi and Fadela Amara, the permit to construct Alain Joyandet, cigars, Christian Blanc, the mission of Christine Boutin and the mis en cause of Eric Woerth in the case of Bettencourt.

A clear message

A week after the publication of the recordings of the Liliane Bettencourt conversations with his manager of fortune, the controversy is not extinguished. Site lepoint.fr revealed yesterday that Eric Woerth was decorated with the last of the Legion of honour in January 2008. The Socialist Party, the Greens and the FN raise the tone (read also page 24). The Elysee is concerned. And seeks the response while supporting his Minister of labour, which is the major reform - pensions - the end of the quinquennium. Yesterday, the UMP has indicated that the Elysee Palace was to remove the garden on July 14, whose cost is high year last to 732.800 euros. "See Ministers drink champagne while the French suffered the crisis, it is not the best effect," said one of its leaders. In the afternoon, François Fillon issued a press release demanding of Christian Blanc that reimburse on "his personal money all of expenditure" on his cigar.

The message is clear: the expenditure will be hunted and the excesses sanctioned. The head of State should present next week a series of measures to reduce the train of life of the State, through the general revision of public policy. The appointment was scheduled for a long time. But the events of recent days could lead the Government to strengthen the device, and Nicolas Sarkozy to put himself forward, he the protagonist of a "blameless Republic."

Rest in how far IAR élyséenne response. Despite reminders on the agenda, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister had so far not taken sanctions against Ministers. Just rumored in the ranks of the UMP that the wrongdoing could bear the costs of the realignment of the fall.

Internet singled out

Eric Woerth, the defence remains immutable: "He did nothing illegal", there is no reason to punish, not even to ask him to give up his position as Treasurer of the UMP. Nicolas Sarkozy he renewed yesterday in Council of Ministers, "his confidence to carry out the reform of pensions". It is true that the PS itself doesn't make the connection between the case of Bettencourt and pensions.

Give strong signals, but avoid is chastising: this is the line that seeks the Executive, who refuses to more than any of only the chapeau of these excesses. The head of the State concerned before its visitors of "ambient populism." His relatives do not hesitate to show the finger Internet and the "tyranny of transparency". "With the Internet, Mitterrand had failed six months", provides a UMP head.