Will Gérald Darmanin be to Emmanuel Macron what Emmanuel Macron was to François Hollande? This little music begins to run within the right, since the young elected official of Tourcoing was propelled Place Beauvau. In Le Parisien , the boss of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, invited Emmanuel Macron to " be wary " of his new Minister of the Interior, who would carry with him " the genes of betrayal ".
“ The president went to get a personality or two who needed recognition, that's all. (...) These ministers are first of all opportunists ”, criticized Christian Jacob. Because according to him, the reshuffle did not offer any particular taking of war to the executive couple ... And this in spite of the sarkozyst inflection which lets show the composition of the new government, directed by the ex-LR Jean Castex.
" What connection does Darmanin have with the right?" He is a member on the march, ”he retorted about the youngest Minister of the Interior of the Fifth Republic. Gérald Darmanin had become Minister of Public Accounts from the start of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term in 2017.
In the footsteps of Nicolas Sarkozy
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 Élysée Palace where Emmanuel Macron received his closest friends: Richard Ferrand, François Bayrou, Gérard Collomb, François Patriat ... He definitely won the esteem of the chef of the State by carrying out the highly sensitive reform of the withholding tax.
At 37, the mayor of Tourcoing therefore won Place Beauvau ... a post that Nicolas Sarkozy had occupied between 2002 and 2004, then between 2005 and 2007. Before embarking on the conquest of the Élysée Palace.
