“You have to know how to change things when things are not going well”, indicated the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV. He assures that the case has nothing to do with his opposition to a real estate project in the park of the castle of La Vallière.
The case caused a stir, mobilizing local elected officials and parliamentarians, leading to the publication of a forum in the columns of the World and a petition. This is the dismissal of the prefect of Indre-et-Loire, Marie Lajus, announced last December on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The reasons given for his replacement differ. According to The chained Duck and the defenders of Marie Lajus, it is because the ex-prefect opposed the project to set up an incubator for start-ups and researchers in a wooded area that cannot be built on, in the park of the Château Louise de La Vallière, not far from Tours. A position that would have pushed elected representatives of the majority to mobilize with Gérald Darmanin. At Figarohowever, a local elected official replied: “This affair is a smokescreen (…) The truth is that this prefect has failed in her relations at the local level.»
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“There’s a lot of lies being told and it’s not worthy of those who serve the state», Attacks Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior continues:You have to know how to change things when things are not going well, and that has nothing to do with real estate projects but, sometimes, with the behavior of each other.“And to conclude:”A representative of the Republic must be absolutely unassailable and respectable. When I consider that this is not the case, I take on my responsibilities as head of administration.»