A few days after the Stade de France fiasco, Emmanuel Macron is trying to regain control of the sovereign. The Élysée is thus working, according to our information, on a trip to the Tarn on Thursday on daily safety in rural areas. Two stops were planned in the first reflections: Gaillac then, in the afternoon, the village of Puycelsi.
In any case, the purpose of this trip: to promote the mobile gendarmerie brigades. This is one of the key points of the planning bill for internal security, presented to the Council of Ministers before the presidential election, but not yet voted on. The text provides for “ensuring security throughout the territory, particularly in rural areas: 200 gendarmerie brigades will be created” (out of a total in France of 3000 brigades). Much of which will be itinerant.
A remobilization signal to his troops
The idea is to facilitate the filing of complaints or power of attorney requests, by avoiding the citizen having to make a long drive to get to the nearest gendarmerie. The visit of the Head of State would be an opportunity to launch a consultation with elected officials on the places benefiting from this security boost.
Politically, this trip to the Tarn, where two of the three outgoing deputies are members of LREM, is not without ulterior motives. In Gaillac, Jean-Luc Mélenchon came out on top in the first round of the presidential election. Emmanuel Macron could therefore send a remobilization signal to his troops: “If we find ourselves everywhere with duels in the second round of the legislative elections between the left – Nupes – and the macronists, it may be useful to send messages beforehand on security and regal to the right-wing electorate to encourage them to go to the polls”, deciphers an LREM strategist.
The day before, Emmanuel Macron will go to Seine-Saint-Denis for a trip dedicated to “youth and sport”. A department portrayed as “California without the sea” (sic), in his interview with “Zadig” magazine, in May 2021.