The change has yet to be done

If the Angers down town retail trade sector is not in great shape, the political offer looks itself a little bit ailing. A few weeks ago, the committee room of Luc Belot, socialist candidate to the French national assembly was buoyant. Votes had to be collected. So the candidate was tuned with the inhabitants of his constituency throughout the opening of its committee room. The electoral campaign is over now and the closure of the office may mean the representative doesn't need anymore to be connected with voters.

In the "store", everything has gone. The inside is absolutely empty. So empty that the vacuum is visible. On the front side, notice boards and posters calling people to give their votes to Mr. Belot have vanished, except the tagline banner at the top of the front side which still says (on Barack Obama's mood) : "The change : it's right now". But that change doesn't look very attractive and that is the point of view of pedestrians who stopped their walk in front of the former committee room to shot a picture, a little bit dumbfounded by the incongruity between the catch phrase and the condition of the store, by the discrepancy between the words and the facts.

It would have been more appropriate, more consistent, and simply more kind, for the former candidate to remove the tagline banner and the candidate's posters at the same time. But it was not the case. Why? Simple omission, indifference or Freudian slip? What does it mean? "Polls are over now : see you again in five years?". Representative and French president are not anymore on the same line? The first option would be shameful. The second looks unlikely. So what does it mean? The change (not only of occupant), it's right now and it could be a sobering experience.