While a new government must be appointed in the coming days, Gérald Darmanin will remain as Minister of the Interior, according to information from Europe 1. The tenant of Place Beauvau was reinforced after a exchange with President Emmanuel Macron.
While Gabriel Attal has just been appointed to Matignon, and the government reshuffle is expected, rumors were circulating in particular about the supposed desire of Gérald Darmanin to succeed Catherine Colonna at the Quai d’Orsay. According to our information, Gérald Darmanin will remain as Minister of the Interior after an exchange with the President of the Republic. A little earlier in the day, he declared that he “had not finished his mission” at the Ministry of the Interior, with the Olympic Games in his sights, thus brushing aside rumors about his possible change of ministerial portfolio.
“I am not a man to shy away”
“Everyone saw that I had not finished my mission at the Ministry of the Interior”, particularly in view of the “absolutely enormous prospect” that the 2024 Olympic Games represent in terms of security, he confided to the press in the premises of the DGSI (General Directorate of Internal Security) in Levallois-Perret, on the occasion of the installation of its new director, Céline Berthon.
The minister insisted on the risks of insecurity weighing on the “particularly original” opening ceremony on the Seine, a first in the history of the Games, evoking the “context of Israeli-Palestinian war and extremely strong Islamist threat ” In France. “I am not the man to shy away from the gendarmes, the police, the prefects, who, 100 days before the torch relay and 200 days before the Olympic Games, are going to risk their lives and put their reputation on the line. ( …) And you know, where I come from, we like to finish what we do,” added the minister.