2023-08-28 05:30:23
Gérald Darmanin, Elisabeth Borne, and Olivier Dussopt applaud Renaud Muselier’s speech, in Tourcoing (North), August 27, 2023. MICHAEL ZUMSTEIN / AGENCE VU POUR “LE MONDE”
Gérald Darmanin’s great escape ended on Sunday August 27, at the end of the afternoon, in the pretty botanical garden of his electoral stronghold, in front of some 700 people. While she had no “not planning to spend this last weekend of August in Tourcoing”, in her words, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne indeed invited herself in extremis to the “political return” of her Minister of the Interior, at the request of the Elysée. She arrived at the end of the afternoon, determined to pass “a few messages”. While the former mayor of the northern city was initially to conclude this day, she had the last word, clean and sharp.
Addressing him directly, the head of government first reminded “Gerald”that he is not the only member of the executive to have humble origins: “Everyone has their story, and so do I. I remember that it was the Republic that helped me, when I was this young immigrant girl, whose mother had to raise her two children alone. »
She also assured him that she shares her concern for the “working classes”, the main theme of the day: “My fight is for every Frenchman, every Frenchwoman, wherever they come from, whatever their social origin, to be able to say to themselves that in France, thanks to the Republic and its work, everything is possible”.
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If she shares the diagnosis and the will of the former Sarkozyist to “take seriously what employees, workers, and many employees, craftsmen, merchants, farmers and civil servants feel”for the Matignon tenant, reappointed at the end of July, only collective action will make it possible to meet their expectations.
The ex-executive Les Républicains (LR) had explained, before the arrival of the Prime Minister, that he did not want to leave Marine Le Pen “go irretrievably to power”. But, for Elisabeth Borne, “there is no fatality” until the extreme right comes to power. And to signify to the tenant of Place Beauvau, whose lone rider has caused many tensions at the Elysée and Matignon in recent days, that he is ” an accountant “ Emmanuel Macron’s record, having been a member of the government since 2017.
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“2027 is a long way off”
She reminds him again that he has “unprecedented means” at the head of his ministry. But that “Despite this, in too many neighborhoods, integration difficulties persist, crime and trafficking persist, and tragedies continue to occur, as in Nîmes in recent days”. Shortly before, the Prime Minister had just applauded Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, absent on Sunday.
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