Basically, Gérald Darmanin is like that, “a kind of province” from a “working family”whose mother is ” maid “. On Wednesday April 13, facing the number 2 of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, on the set of the program “Program against program” of BFM-TV, the Minister of the Interior again put on his pure fiber costume. to try to win over the candidate Macron the votes of the working classes which he sorely lacks before the second round of the presidential election. After the strict suit-jacket of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, after the uniform of the first policeman in France, here is the panoply of “Monsieur Peuple”.
Who among the government figures could best play this role? Bruno Le Maire? Too icy, too big bourgeois. Marlene Schiappa? Not versatile enough. Eric Dupond-Moretti Seal Keeper? Modest origins and a brilliant social success, of course. But sometimes broken, he has remained invisible or almost since the April 10 results. No one was better placed than him to serve as Emmanuel Macron’s first lieutenant. In the candidate’s camp, his triple legitimacy is gladly emphasized: from a popular background, a local elected official and a good technician.
Additional advantage in the battle, in Tourcoing (North), where he was elected mayor in 2014, the Minister of the Interior also had the opportunity to familiarize himself with the adversary, his speeches, his methods and his faults, at the heart of the northern stronghold of Marine Le Pen. With a serious forehead, he accompanied the outgoing President of the Republic to Carvin (Pas-de-Calais), the day after the first round. Since then, it has multiplied: after Montceau-les-Mines (Saône-et-Loire) Tuesday April 12, where the RN candidate came first with 30.17% of the votes on Sunday, it will be Friday in the North, Monday 18 April in the Center, Tuesday 19 in Hauts-de-France, wherever the RN won a good third of the votes. About fifteen trips in all, which hardly changes him from his ministerial tours: his cabinet has lost count of visits to police stations and the gendarmerie since his appointment at Place Beauvau in the summer of 2020, probably nearly 300.
“loyal” and “faithful”
Each time, he unfolds the same roadmap, polishes the same elements of language to try to reverse the image of the “president of the rich” which abolished wealth tax and reduced housing benefits, which suggested ” cross the street “ to find a job and who are accused of having shown themselves to be deaf to the social anxiety that grips the country.
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