They hate each other so cordially that many observers wonder if they can still work together. The famous enmity between Elisabeth Borne And Gerald Darmanin reached its peak on August 27. The Prime Minister was invited at the last minute, and at the request of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, to the great political return that his Minister of the Interior had organized in his stronghold of Tourcoing. Our colleagues from The Express make new revelations on this tense day when Elisabeth Borne publicly slowed down Gérald Darmanin’s presidential elections.
“I had not planned to spend this last weekend of August in Tourcoing”had stung Elisabeth Borne from the platform of the event organized by Gérald Darmanin, in order to clearly indicate to anyone who wanted to hear her disapproval of the individual initiative of his minister. A dig that the Minister of the Interior took very badly. “It’s insulting”he would have written to her the same evening by SMS, as revealed by our colleagues from The Express. And Elisabeth Borne’s speech would not be the only moment on August 27 when the Prime Minister would have humiliated Gérald Darmanin.
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Gérald Darmanin: this humiliation that Elisabeth Borne spared him
During this very political day at the end of summer 2023, Elisabeth Borne was brought to meet Annie Darmanin (née Ouakid), the mother of the Minister of the Interior. “Well, your son has energy!”, would have addressed the Prime Minister to him, not without a certain irony, before leaving while puffing on her electronic cigarette, as reported by our colleagues. But, during this day, Elisabeth Borne would also have avoided another humiliation to his minister.
To distinguish himself from the rest of Macronie and prepare his presidential ambitions, Gérald Darmanin likes to stage its supposed proximity to the working classes. A point on which Elisabeth Borne had considered attacking her minister. “We have been carrying out the president’s reforms together for four years, we share your concern for the working classes, you must have bitter memories of the APL“had considered saying Elisabeth Borne in her speech, according to the revelations of The Express. However, theThe 5 euro drop in APL was carried out by Gérald Darmanin himself, then Minister of Public Accounts. Elisabeth Borne would ultimately have chosen to abandon this attack.
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