2023-08-24 22:12:00
Gérald Darmanin believes in an interview given Thursday to La Voix du Nord that a victory for Marine Le Pen in the 2027 presidential election is “fairly likely” if the majority “let go a majority of the working and middle classes” in the leader of the RN.
“The fact is that in five years, a victory for Madame Le Pen is quite likely. Faced with this, we will only need one candidate. And that we do not rely only on the winners of globalization and the elected from the city centers, because that does not make 51% of the votes”, judges Mr. Darmanin.
“If we let a majority of the working and middle classes go to Marine Le Pen, the senior executives will not take us to the second round”, insists the Minister of the Interior.
Mr. Darmanin organizes Sunday in his electoral stronghold of Tourcoing (North) his first political return, where several ministers and several dozen parliamentarians are expected, a few weeks after the ministerial reshuffle and the maintenance at Matignon of Elisabeth Borne.
“Sunday, I will say that the social question is essential. That’s what would get Marine Le Pen elected in 2027, not the migration question. In 2007, let’s remember, Nicolas Sarkozy was not elected on national identity, but on the question of work. We must therefore tackle it”, insists Mr. Darmanin.
“I have some ideas about what the working classes are waiting for: a return to authority in schools and on the streets, more firmness in the justice system and the police. People are also asking for power. live off the fruit of their labor”, explained the Minister.
“Sometimes frustrated”
The former leader of the Republicans (LR), rallied to Emmanuel Macron in 2017, “pleads, for example, for the delay in the reduction of production taxes for companies”, and wishes that “a part” of them make “efforts” on wages.
“I would add that we have to worry about a new proletariat made up of all these single-parent families who are not making it. What was wrong with the pension reform was that they were being asked indeed to work more in the current conditions”, he adds.
Asked about the recent reshuffle, Mr. Darmanin assures that he “always thought that the President of the Republic would not change government. It was much too early. We change it when we have difficulties in Parliament or when we loses an election.
But he says he is “sometimes frustrated” at not being able to express his “political opinion”. “I told the president, you have to let the feelings express themselves. I do not have the same as Bruno Le Maire, that does not prevent me from enjoying being in government with him”.
“I obtained from the president that I could express my sensitivity more on Sunday”, assures Mr. Darmanin, whose political offensive accelerates the calendar within the majority while in 2027, Emmanuel Macron will not be able to represent himself.
“2027 is a long way off,” Elisabeth Borne retorted on Wednesday, while Stéphane Séjourné, boss of the Renaissance presidential party, judges that “ideas must come before egos”.
24/08/2023 22:11:15 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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