Each candidate was then made proposals which did not rise to debate

The televised debate last night was the first and the direction of the PS had everything to make it the more smooth as possible. At 20: 30, Laurent Fabius, Ségolène Royal and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, all three candidates for the Socialist nomination for the presidential election, have exposed their economic and social options. There was no confrontation and speeches but two real debates: on the best way to increase the purchasing power of employees and the diagnosis of 35 hours. So that this service (the first in a series of three) is mastered, the interventions of each was timed, the themes covered (employment, income, health, relocations, public debt...) had been transferred in advance to let, and theoretically had the ban to stop. At the beginning of the show the three candidates also made remarks, even if mark breeches assault. When Ségolène Royal declared that "the three causes of impoverishment" of the France are "underinvestment in the work, innovation and the environment", Laurent Fabius immediately added: "the social and the environmental need nurturing growth" promising programming for research and environmental laws.

Claiming all three of the project of PS adopted in June, the candidates share common goals: they want to rebalance income from capital and labour for the latter, increase the purchasing power of employees, combat relocations, promote the construction of social housing, or even back on "for the benefit of the rich" tax cuts passed by the right to clear margins of budgetary manoeuvre.

GDF-Suez: "funny merger."

Their differences are therefore expressed on tools to use to achieve this. Is Laurent Fabius who initiated the discussion by asking its competitors to position themselves on two proposals: he wants to increase the minimum wage of 100 euros in 2007 and wish the 35 hours which offered "great satisfaction to millions of employees" are "generalized". Dominique Strauss-Kahn immediately before the boom: it was "a point of disagreement on how to proceed to consisting of salary increases to believe that everything passes by the State". "". "We have much more than yesterday need for negotiation, he added, otherwise the minimum wage serves as a car-broom and compresses all wages". Ségolène Royal agreed in its sense is worrisome "pull down" wages "just above the minimum wage". DSK wants to promote the Career progressions and President of Poitou-Charentes intends to address the purchasing power of a "comprehensive" manner, including the cost of housing and energy.

35 Hours, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is passed very quickly and Ségolène Royal should be questioned several times before responding. When they were "not applied" or that they are not translated by"sufficient job creation" (as in hospital), they produced a social "regression" which must be corrected, she explained before proclaiming: "I prefer a socialism that looks at things in the face rather than reciting formulas to believe that everything has been perfect."

All agree to GDF-Suez merger project of "bad" and condemning the opening of the capital of EDF, candidates are not all as precise on the future. "He will renationalise EDF" and "undo funny fusion" between GDF and Suez, said Laurent Fabius. "If the merger can be dismantled, it must be dismantled," said DSK without deciding on the future of the EDF. Each candidate was then made proposals which did not rise to debate. Ségolène Royal and wants to boost employment in "regionalization full assistance in economic sectors and the poles of competitiveness" and that by extending micro devices tested in its region at the national level. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is committed to "at least stabilize the debt" by the end of the next Parliament if it was in the Elysee Palace.