Gérald Darmanin is a pillar of the right wing of macronie.
And he is now number three in the government, being confirmed at the head of the Ministry of the Interior.
A way for the President of the Republic to highlight his territorial asset and his “social right” card.
Because before joining Emmanuel Macron, for whom he did not campaign in 2017, the former mayor of Tourcoing (North) was a member of the UMP then of the Republicans.
He was appointed Minister of Action and Public Accounts in the government of Édouard Philippe on May 17, 2017. He notably carried out the reform of the withholding tax, initiated under the previous five-year term.
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During the July 2020 reshuffle, Gérald Darmanin was then promoted to Minister of the Interior, succeeding Christophe Castaner.
An appointment denounced by feminist associations, while he is under investigation for rape charges.
Among its priorities are the fight against drugs, violence against women and separatism.
Gérald Darmanin notably carried the texts of law on global security and that consolidating the principles of the Republic.
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The Minister of the Interior also has to his credit the Beauvau de la sécurité, consultation launched in February 2021 with the unions, representatives of the police, elected officials, magistrates and members of civil society, following the Michel Zecler affair.
In October 2020, he also had to respond to the assassination of Samuel Paty.
Gérald Darmanin immediately asked the prefects to arrest and expel from the territory the 231 foreigners in an irregular situation who are in the file of reports for the prevention of terrorist radicalization (FSPRT).
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In the process, he had ordered the closure of the great mosque of Pantin, whose rector had admitted to having relayed a video implicating the professor of history and geography.
It finally reopened a few months later under surveillance.
The passage of the former deputy place Beauvau is also marked by the dissolution of Génération identitaire in March 2021. On May 5, Gérald Darmanin announced his candidacy for the legislative elections in the 10th district of the North, which includes part of the city of Tourcoing, of which he was the aedile.