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Sunday was the political return of Gérald Darmanin. For the occasion, a thousand people went to Tourcoing in the North to attend round tables on the theme of the popular electorate. Residents, elected officials, a dozen ministers and even the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne finally went there.
Nearly 700 people gathered in his stronghold of Tourcoing. Elected officials including a dozen elected Republicans, ministers were present. And even Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, presents at the request of Emmanuel Macron to recall the importance of unity within the majority. The Minister of the Interior has won his bet.
“It’s not just any personal calculation either.”
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, stands out as a figure capable of rallying the majority around him. And if he reaffirms in his speech his loyalty to the Head of State, he maintains his choice to express his own convictions.
“We must respect and take seriously the feeling that people express. Saying that is not being criticized. What a strange loyalty and fidelity, that which would consist in not subjecting convictions and avenues for improvement to debate in which we believe for the collective good. It is not any personal calculation either, “explains Gérard Darmanin before his assembly.
Eyes on 2027
A clear speech, but which annoys some in the government. The presence of Elisabeth Borne shows her desire not to give the Minister of the Interior the opportunity to unite a large part of the majority around him alone.
While for many, Gérald Darmanin already has his eyes fixed on 2027, the Minister of the Interior must now organize the follow-up after this tour de force, under the watchful eye of Emmanuel Macron, concerned about his succession. just one year after his re-election. In 2017, he himself had started his campaign when he was François Hollande’s economy minister.