After the Olympics, Darmanin will continue to “serve” the State where Macron deems him “useful”, at the Interior or “elsewhere”. “I serve the State, and if the president thinks that I will be useful to the Ministry of the interior or elsewhere, I will serve him,” argued France’s first cop.

Aiming to be the voice of popular categories, with a view to a possible candidacy, he had pleaded with Le Figaro for the executive to hold a speech on “two legs”