In PS, the battle of "Valls" cons "Rebs" Indoor

No luck. Moving in Moselle, Francois Rebsamen, head of the security division in the team of Francois Hollande, could not attend the meeting between the applicant and representatives of PS police unions, Thursday, April 26. Claude Bartolone, President of the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, and Manuel Valls, they have not missed the call. The communications director of Francois Hollande was sitting right next to the candidate, who consulted regularly.

What was the communications director in a meeting with the police? "We must not see malice," says Mr. Valls. He swears, he led the meeting in all loyalty and "related Rebs" who prepared the event, while conceding: "I have some expertise in this area ..."

"Valls" cons "Rebs" although Mr. Bartolone has not abdicated, the struggle to don the uniform of the first cop of France, between those two, takes a turn more intense. Both men have long shared a safe fiber reinforced by their experience as a local.

"NETWORKS JOXE"

Both are great connoisseurs of police networks. But not the same. Despite the involvement of all the moments alongside the candidate, Mr. Valls still occurred very recently, after the first round, union officers and senior members of the gendarmerie. He toured all organizations except Alliance, the second union of peacekeepers as being too tied to Nicolas Sarkozy. Former chief of staff of Pierre Joxe, M. Rebsamen, for its part remains close to Joaquin Masanet, former Secretary General of UNSA-Police, the former CEO of the National Police and Patrice Bergougnoux "Joxe networks" that now consider some less operative than in the past.

What annoys the highest degree the president of the PS group in the Senate. "It is very unpleasant to hear as well from someone who has left the image of a large interior minister who has modernized the national police. But between the alleged" Joxe networks "and" networks Bauer "I chose," he tackled in an interview at the agency specialized FEA Security, Thursday, April 19. A thinly veiled allusion to the proximity between Manuel Valls and criminologist Alain Bauer, the godfather of one of his children.

To prevail, the image and reputation count. The question of confidence, for this sensitive position, will also be decisive. Mr. Rebsamen is an old friend of Francois Hollande. But he had left to support Ségolène Royal, before returning to him. Mr. Valls, after playing the role of free electron for years, has become one of the key men of the presidential equipped.

"The campaign reveals," warned Francois Hollande. From this perspective, the mayor of Dijon has not necessarily scored points by proposing three days before the first round, to transform "the offense of cannabis in contravention". The measurement started from a good intention, that of reducing the number of procedures and ease the work of police officers. But was curtly rejected by the candidate.