Upon returning from his stronghold of Tourcoing (North), Gérald Darmanin has, this Monday, September 30, his heart still full of bitterness. The former Minister of the Interior has just handed over his position in the government to the far-right Vendée senator Bruno Retailleau. But the former Republican (LR), a hated figure on the left, jokes about it outside the microphone on the set of France Inter, where he is the guest of the morning show. “Have you seen? Now I’m on the left! »smile. In a few days the excesses and provocations of the former “Sarko Boy” who tried the leader of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, “a little soft” and complained about “wildness” of the country, seem very shy about the media appearances of the new tenant of Place Beauvau.
Since his appointment, the former president of the LR group in the Senate has occupied spaces and minds. Not a day goes by without an important interview, a shocking announcement, and a divisive statement. France is experiencing its “Retailleau moment”. Full-frame glasses, serious face and slender appearance, says the elected representative of Vendée here that “Immigration is not an opportunity” (on LCI, September 29), where “The rule of law is neither intangible nor sacred.” (In sunday newspaper September 29).
France’s first police officer, a 63-year-old man until then little known to the general public, is on the front pages of the newspapers. Parisianof Spot as Figaro Magazine (of October 4), where it was said in favor of “presumption of innocence for the police » and promises to transform state medical aid, a basket of care for undocumented foreigners, into emergency medical aid. To justify, in his words, his “clear line” on immigration, inspired by the method of the post-fascist leader Giorgia Meloni in Italy, and applauded by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. The minister, a conservative Catholic, claims to know “what the French want” and leaves aside all the criticisms that portray him as an apostle of an old France. “It’s my style”decide on The Parisian starting October 10.
“It has character”
From Matignon, where instructions were given not to pay” in the fight », the multiple interviews of the Minister of the Interior are duly reread. And approved. “The Prime Minister and Bruno Retailleau are philosophically aligned”we swore it on the Place Beauvau. Certainly, Michel Barnier distances himself from the attacks made by his minister against the rule of law, but he embraces without blinking, during the political program “L’Evénement”, on France 2, on October 3, the “Retailleau line”.
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