And one more minister on the municipal start line. Like many of his colleagues in government, Gérald Darmanin will be a candidate in the elections next March. The Minister of Action and Public Accounts will even top the list for La République en Marche in Tourcoing (North), as he announced on Monday at La Voix du Nord.
The 37-year-old minister, whose main feat is to have successfully carried out the reform of the withholding tax on source income, had however explained that his candidacy would only be formalized for Valentine's Day , next February 14. Gérald Darmanin finally chose to make an appointment with the voters a little early. "I didn't feel like making some people wait," he told the regional daily.
Darmanin ready to leave Bercy
A city that the tenant of Bercy already knows very well for having been the first city councilor for several years. Elected mayor in 2014 on behalf of the UMP after a triangular with the FN and PS, he had resigned from his post to become first deputy in September 2017, a few months after being appointed minister.
"We are having discussions with Jean-Marie Vuylsteker (the current mayor) and we have concluded that I was the best placed to carry municipal aspirations in the continuity of what we have done for six years," said Gérald Darmanin regional daily. So I am at the top of the list. "
If he intends to remain minister for the time to lead the campaign, Gérald Darmanin assures that his tricolor scarf will take precedence over his government post in the event of election as mayor: "I believe that it is not healthy to combine the two in the time. I will obviously comply with the rule chosen by the President of the Republic. Minister, this is temporary. Mayor, elected local, it is the commitment of a life, of a city. "
