2023-08-26 06:00:44
At the top of the state, everyone had theorized it: hostilities for 2027 were not to start before the 2024 Olympics, mid-quinquennium. The ace. Under the battering of Gérald Darmanin, the ball of ambitions opened this fall. By declaring mid-August in Le Figaro that he was now planning around 2027, the rejection of Matignon annoyed many elected representatives of the majority, denouncing a crime of lèse-majesté. In the summer of 2022, the person concerned nevertheless ensured in front of The world that it was far too early to think about the next presidential election. “We all have to be smart enough to understand that the fight isn’t now, it’s 2025,” he confided on the sidelines of a trip to Mayotte. Then : “The first to cross the line will be handicapped for the rest…”
Finally, like his mentor Nicolas Sarkozy in the past, Gérald Darmanin launched the major maneuvers, just one year after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. Twenty years ago, immediately after the delicate re-election of Jacques Chirac against Marine Le Pen, the Minister of the Interior at the time (parallelism of forms!) also expressed his ambitions, declaring, in 2003 , which he was thinking of 2007, and “not just by shaving”. We know the rest.
But the path for the candidates for the succession of Mr. Macron being very bottled, each must seek a niche to distinguish themselves, to create a political space. Gérald Darmanin, he is aiming for “lower class”, ” the key “ of the future election. “We must not leave the popular electorate alone with the RN [Rassemblement national] », he confides, lamenting that no one, in the majority, addresses this electorate. He who constantly recalls his modest origins wants to believe that his position “seguino-chevènementist” will allow him to differentiate himself from his rivals, Edouard Philippe and Bruno Le Maire, who “disputing the liberal and progressive niche”. “Me, I don’t have a double”he says.
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A risky bet
This summer offensive has somewhat irritated one of the guardians of the temple of macronism, Gabriel Attal, who considers it hasty and embarrassing for the president. But if the Minister of Education pretends not to understand who his colleague from the interior wants to address (“What does he mean by ‘working classes’? »), it is to better develop its own strategy at the bedside of “middle classes”, “those French people who work and are tired of financing a model allowing others not to work”. If Marine Le Pen attracts this category of French people, he worries, she is sure to win the presidential election. “Social movements always precede political movements”, analyzes Mr. Attal.
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