Gérald Darmanin, strengthened by the security success of the Olympic Games, prepares his political return

After the Olympic Games, the resigning Minister of the Interior has just unveiled the security arrangements for the Paralympic Games. A new risky challenge for the figure of the right wing of the presidential camp, who is preparing his political comeback.

Focused, Gérald Darmanin ensures the day-to-day affairs of his ministry with the same objective: a new flawless security record, this time for the Paralympic Games. “If he succeeds, it will give him enormous stature.”assures franceinfo the advisor to a leading minister, continuing: “Politically, he could have done even more after the first salvo of the Games”The resigning Minister of the Interior is on the lookout to avoid declaring victory before the end.

His position is increasingly unclear. The northerner had announced that he would leave his ministry after the Games, but after the first episode, this great celebration, this jubilation, the Minister of the Interior remains ambiguous. “He is not asking to stay in government, but if the future coalition is not contrary to his values, and if the President asks him to, why not?his entourage explains to franceinfo. Between will and duty, he will do duty”. In other words, to hear this relative, Gerald Darmanin does not ask for it and will therefore not be weakened if he is not appointed by Emmanuel Macron.

Gérald Darmanin has given up the high-profile role of leading the group in the National Assembly. He says he will not run for the party presidency in the fall either. But he intends to take care of his return and will gather his troops again in his hometown of Tourcoing on September 15, after Elisabeth Borne had put him back in his place on stage at his home last year.

A return to school on the social question and purchasing power, his team tells us, for “give his perception of the country, his diagnosis of society”. The Minister “is aware that there is a very strong gap between citizens and elitism”even if it means overplaying horizontal politics. In the hope of one day, perhaps, donning the costume of head of state, Gérald Darmanin no longer wears a tie.

Within the presidential camp, some are convinced of this: the Minister of the Interior, unable to bear knowing that Gabriel Attal was at Matignon, is one of those who pushed the head of state to dissolve the National Assembly. “I am sure that he built this plan with the president. It is certain that they talk to each other, they often use the same terms, it is not insignificant, there are discussions” a source within the executive assured franceinfo. However, the dissolution has traumatized a large part of the troops, particularly in the Assembly. The entourage of the tenant of Beauvau denies: “He was never in favour of dissolution, but rather of a return to the polls”.