2023-08-24 23:04:36
Gérald Darmanin visiting Finistère, August 24, 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
“The fact is that in five (sic) years, a victory for Madame Le Pen is quite likely” if the presidential camp “leaves a majority of the working and middle classes” on the side of the National Rally (RN), estimated Gerald Darmanin in a interview granted Thursday, August 24 to The voice of the North.
“Faced with this, we will only need one candidate. And that we don’t just rely on the winners of globalization and the elected officials of the city centers, because that’s not 51% of the votesjudges the Minister of the Interior. If we let go of a majority of the working and middle classes at Marine Le Pen, the senior executives will not take us to the second round. »
Mr. Darmanin is organizing his first political comeback on Sunday in his electoral stronghold of Tourcoing (North), where several ministers and dozens of parliamentarians are expected, a few weeks after the cabinet reshuffle and the maintenance of Elisabeth Borne at Matignon.
“Sunday, I will say that the social question is essential. That’s what would get Marine Le Pen elected in 2027, not the migration issue. In 2007, let us remember, Nicolas Sarkozy was not elected on national identity, but on the question of work. So we have to tackle it.”insists M. Darmanin.
“I have some ideas about what the working classes are waiting for: a return to authority in schools and in the streets, more firmness in the justice system and the police. People are also demanding to be able to live off the fruit of their labor.”explains the Minister.
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“Sometimes frustrated”
The former leader of the Republicans (LR), rallied to Emmanuel Macron in 2017, “pleads, for example, for the postponement of the reduction in corporate production taxes” and wish that” a part “ of them make « efforts » regarding salaries. “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 indeed being asked to work more under current conditions. »
Asked about the recent reshuffle, Mr. Darmanin assures that he has “Always thought that the President of the Republic would not change government. It was way too early. We change it when we have difficulties in Parliament or when we lose an election ”. But he says to himself “sometimes frustrated” not being able to exhibit his “political opinion”. “I told the president, we have to let the sensitivities express themselves. I don’t have the same as Bruno Le Maire, that doesn’t 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 is accelerating the timetable within the majority, while in 2027, Emmanuel Macron will not be able to stand again.
“2027 is a long way off”Elisabeth Borne retorted on Wednesday, while Stéphane Séjourné, secretary general of the Renaissance presidential party, judges that “Ideas must come before egos”.
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