Gérald Darmanin, who will go to Lola’s funeral on Monday afternoon October 24, annoys within the government, according to information from franceinfo. If the presence of a member of the government has been validated by the family of the murdered girl, he has done everything to impose himself as obvious. So much so that some members of Macronie criticize the former mayor of Tourcoing for overplaying empathy, in particular by exchanging daily on the telephone with the relatives of the victim. The minister’s entourage, however, assures that he was indeed invited personally.
“The Darmanin method is annoying”, gets angry a minister, who criticizes him in particular for his omnipresence on the ground, sometimes even without waiting for instructions from Matignon. This was particularly the case last summer, which saw Gérald Darmanin tour the regions affected by the fires: “It’s a parasite”plague a colleague.
The Minister of the Interior is also criticized for his networks, skilfully maintained during lunches and dinners, where elected officials and police parade at his table. Among those who have their napkin ring in Beauvau: a group of six to seven Renaissance deputies who serve as relays in the media, with whom he exchanges continuously on Telegram messaging. The meetings take place in the minister’s office, Gérald Darmanin then appears relaxed and without a tie. The Minister of the Interior also recently received a delegation from the Republicans, his former political family, led by the leader of the right wing of the party Éric Ciotti.
It was with this group that the first negotiations took place on the law on the orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi), already easily adopted in the Senate (mostly Les Républicains). Gérald Darmanin is also counting on the votes of his former camp for it to be adopted in the Assembly, in mid-November, and thus show that his text does not need 49.3.
Its other weapon is its local roots. In addition to his ministerial portfolio, Gérald Darmanin also sits as an adviser to the European Metropolis of Lille, where he leads negotiations so that the Macronist group, which currently sits in the opposition, obtains vice-presidential positions in December, according to the information from franceinfo. The Minister of the Interior wants to take advantage of a falling out between President Damien Castelain and the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. One of his friends watches him do it with appetite: for 2027, the trajectory of the Northerner looks like “more like a springboard than a toboggan run”.