Heap-colored ceiling, which pours its rain continuously, the sky of Méricourt (Pas-de-Calais) looks as gray as the Walkers in the polls.
The list however includes five ministers, including those of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin (in last position).
Without blast effect, therefore, for the moment.
“I don't care about the polls, what matters is the outcome of the election.
This is the land, folks!
»Retorts Éric Dupond-Moretti by landing on the market, his colleague and running mate, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, at his side.
His face now appears next to that of the head of the LREM list, Laurent Pietraszewski, on the leaflets he holds in his hand and distributes to whoever wants them.
Joker and joker, buying waffles there, ordering "un ch'tio café" here.
We ask him for photos, the media keeper of the Seals does not sulk his pleasure.
Headliner dispatched to boost the presidential majority campaign on the lands of Xavier Bertrand, outgoing president and rival of Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election.
Even if it means risking a scattering of votes for the benefit of the RN, which she intends to block.
The Minister of Justice allowed himself a small tackle with his counterpart of the Interior who had declared to prefer the "good sense of the butcher-butcher of Tourcoing" to the studies of INSEE.
LP / Jean-Baptiste Quentin
The burning security news of the week, which once again saw the Ministers of Justice and the Interior at odds, invites itself into the stroll through a good word. “We're going to see the butcher, not Tourcoing, but…” jokes Dupond-Moretti, rushing towards a stall without finishing his sentence. Allusion to the one whose delinquency Darmanin praised "common sense". The case again comes back to the chance of a meeting with a retired police officer, whose former tenor of the bar was… the lawyer. The former cop teases him about the means of the police and the justice system. The minister lists the increases in posts and budgets, then lets go: "I want to be judged on my balance sheet, not on preconceptions, not on cufflinks when I put them on ..."
"What's your name again?"
»Laughs a lady when she sees the star of the courtroom land.
“Sébastien Chenu!
»Retorts Dupond-Moretti.
The joke completes the designation of its target.
"The demonization of the FN, it's a pipe!
»Hammers the Keeper of the Seals.
In order to support his point, he wishes to keep the old name.
So when he jokes with a shopkeeper, wearing camouflage clothing.
"I'm chasing the customer!"
Jokes the market gardener.
“Me, I'm chasing the FN!
The minister prides himself.
Notoriety must also be transformed into voting intentions ...
Eric Dupond-Moretti was accompanied by the Minister of Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
LP / Jean-Baptiste Quentin
Bernadette, rather seduced by Bertrand, Dimitri, his heart to the left, would not bet on it. “People don't like En Marche here,” a young woman assures us. The health crisis and its consequences are on everyone's mind. The "fed up" of the French too. At each stop, Dupond-Moretti is an advocate for government action, spokesperson for this optimism that the executive tried to instill in this week of reopening. "We are waiting to see the results," says a fan, between encouragement and impatience.
At the market café, a lady refuses the leaflet that the minister hands her. “We are in a democracy, nothing is compulsory. We have to stay in a democracy for a long time, moreover! »Retorts Dupond-Moretti. The exchange is repeated with a neighbor at the table. By hammering him so hard, does he think there is any danger? "There are people who want to access the highest positions in the Republic, who are neither Republicans nor Democrats," he replied, adding: "We sometimes lose the sense of essential values, freedom, separation. powers… ”To these, his mission is to block the region. An offensive, as much as a bet. Eric Dupond-Moretti wants to be judged on his record as minister. The candidate, who claims to have an expression which is “his own, singular”, will also be the result of this campaign.
