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Reshuffle: Gérald Darmanin becomes Minister of the Interior

2020-07-07T15:23:17.678Z


Intimate with Xavier Bertrand and close to Nicolas Sarkozy, the Minister of Budget replaces Christophe Castaner.


It took two tries. Appointed Interior Minister on Monday, Gérald Darmanin had already sought office in 2018 after the surprise resignation of Gérard Collomb. At the time, Emmanuel Macron had preferred Christophe Castaner, a follower from the start. " He had taken it badly but he got back on his horse, " recalls a ministerial adviser. Since then, Gérald Darmanin has won the confidence of Emmanuel Macron. Difficult for the President of the Republic to accept the appointment to this sensitive post of someone who is not entirely loyal to him.

Close to Nicolas Sarkozy, whose primary campaign he directed in 2016, and close to Xavier Bertrand, his mentor in politics, Gérald Darmanin has gradually made his place in macronie. Very quickly, at the start of the five-year term, he was invited to participate in the strategic meetings of the Elysée Palace where Emmanuel Macron received his closest friends: Richard Ferrand, François Bayrou, Gérard Collomb, François Patriat ... He made a place for himself but didn’t is not yet in the president's little papers. He will enter it with the highly sensitive reform of the withholding tax. Emmanuel Macron does not want to miss his shot. So he puts Gérald Darmanin under pressure. He publicly expressed doubts about the solidity of the text. "Gérald took it the wrong way but he rolled up his sleeves and he did it. Result, it will be in the balance sheet of the quinquennium ”, we observe within the executive.

"Darmanin is more social and more sovereignty"

At the same time, the Minister of Budget distinguished himself in the National Assembly where he did not hold his blows against his former comrades of LR. With the right ministers of the Philippe government, he is one of the most political. But he begins to get bored in Bercy. I am very happy here but in thirty years, there are only two budget ministers who have made three budgets: Éric Woerth and me. We need a new eye, ”argued Gérald Darmanin earlier this year.

To support his approach, he relies on his city of Tourcoing. In politics, legitimacy goes through election. He was re-elected in the first round. So essential. " Gérald, he's the nicest guy in the world. Except when you say no. There, he farts a cable. He calls you and he insults you. He can play the balance of power very hard, ”recalls one of those who, within the executive, had to wipe his anger. Now he is rewarded. " Gérald Darmanin is more social and more sovereignty ," describes an adviser. It fits people and time well . ” And undoubtedly at the Ministry of the Interior which finds itself, thirteen years later, with a Sarkozyst at its head.

Source: lefigaro

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