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18 de abril de 2024President Nicolas Sarkozy met with party leaders on Sunday night to discuss how to respond to a severe defeat in regional elections, in which his majority party was defeated in 21 of 22 mainland regions, retaining a majority only in Alsace.
The defeat was expected after a first round of voting a week ago, especially after the opposition Socialist Party and its allies made common cause with the Europe Ecology party, running on joint party lists, but it stung nonetheless.
Mr. Sarkozy is scheduled to meet Monday morning with Prime Minister François Fillon, who is expected to announce his government’s resignation, but be reappointed as prime minister with a shuffled cabinet as a response to voter unhappiness.
Mr. Sarkozy has already said that he will slow down the pace of structural changes, concentrating on a needed pension overhaul. The leader of his party in the National Assembly, Jean-François Copé, called Sunday for a “return to our fundamentals” while recognizing “a real defeat” in the regional vote, the last national election before the presidential race of 2012.
The Socialist Party leader, Martine Aubry, was happy, praising the vote as “a victory without precedent,” while Mr. Fillon said that in a difficult economic period, “these elections show that the French are worried” about their pensions and other social protections. But reforms were required to keep the social welfare system solvent, he said, adding: “We do not govern a great country like France according to the rhythm of local elections.”
While more French voted Sunday, an estimated 51 percent compared with 46.4 percent a week ago, the abstention rate was a new record for the second round. Mr. Sarkozy was unable either to attract many votes from the far right National Front or to mobilize his own supporters adequately.
On Sunday night, with about 93 percent of ballots counted, the Socialist Party and its allies had won 54 percent of the overall national vote, according to the Interior Ministry. Mr. Sarkozy’s party and its allies won 35 percent, and the National Front less than 10 percent.
After the last regional elections of 2004, the Socialists and their allies already controlled 20 of 22 mainland regions, so their sway was never in doubt. The only question was whether they would sweep Corsica and Alsace, too, the last redoubts of Mr. Sarkozy’s majority center-right party, Union for a Popular Movement.
There also was interest in the good showing of a coalition of green parties, known as Europe Ecology, which ran in third place a week ago and whose active support will be needed by the Socialists if they hope to win the presidency. The anti-immigrant National Front also ran well. The elections were disastrous for François Bayrou’s Democratic Movement party, which tried to position itself as a centrist alternative.
The vote, which was for regional assemblies that have little effect on national politics, was interpreted, inevitably, in national terms, as a last message from the voters before 2012. The level of abstention, and the sweep of the vote, reflected both anger and alienation.
Mr. Sarkozy, elected president in 2007 over a Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, promised France a “rupture,” a break with the past. He vowed to put more money in people’s pockets, to cut taxes and make France more competitive.
But the economic meltdown made his life more difficult; unemployment is now at its highest in a decade, and the French have the sense of a tightened life. The French are moody in any case, but there is much talk of the Sarkozy magic dissipating. His approval rating, at 36 percent, is at its lowest point, according to a recent poll by the French firm CSA.
He pushed debates on national identity and the full facial veil that appear to have helped, not hurt, the far right. There have been various controversies, like a vain effort to push his young son for a prominent post in local government. Much-bruited overhauls of the judiciary, the pension system and local government itself have been controversial, even if many French support them. But there is a sense that Mr. Sarkozy becomes bored easily and does not follow through.
Still, as in Britain, those who win local elections do not always do well nationally. Socialists have a candidate problem. Ms. Aubry, the leader of the party, is considered too dull and doctrinaire; Ms. Royal is considered unpredictable; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently the chief of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, would have to give up that job to run in party primaries, and while he is popular with Parisian elites, his national stature is less clear.
Mr. Sarkozy has done well, however, on the international stage, and next year he will, with France, take over the chairmanship of the Group of 20, the main international economic gathering of leaders. He has said he will press for a global tax on financial transactions, progress on climate change and an effort to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. A good performance would help him reposition himself for the 2012 election.
Christophe Barbier, the editor of the weekly L’Express, said that the Group of 20 was crucial for Mr. Sarkozy. “Sarkozy needs to absolutely succeed in that presidency if he wants to be re-elected as the head of France.”
Having performed well in the chairmanship of the European Union at the beginning of the financial crisis, Mr. Barbier said, “with the G-20, he needs to be a good architect, to reconstruct the global economy.”