A cover that gets people talking. On August 28, Release displayed Gérald Darmanin by titling “Darmanin first cop in France”. Indeed, “during his back-to-school rally in Tourcoing, the Minister of the Interior planned to set a first milestone for 2027. This was without counting the call to order from the Prime Minister, who invited herself to the last moment”, our colleagues reported. Faced with this front page, which was original to say the least, the main person concerned could have been offended. Fortunately, the latter reacted with humor.
This Tuesday, October 10, 2023, the editorial staff of Daily visited the office of the Minister of the Interior. In a corner, Paul Gasnier discovered that the cover of the newspaper had been printed then framed before being placed in Gérald Darmanin’s office. When questioned, the politician explained himself. “I try to have humor in all circumstances”, he indicated. According to him, “you can quickly get a big head when you’re in politics”.
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“If you don’t like it, too bad.”
Far from being formalized, the politician knows that “L“the boss” (Elisabeth Borne, editor’s note) “monitoring”. However, he assures that he is not the plaything of his superiors. “I am a politician, I respect a parliamentary hierarchy, but I have convictions, I am not a technical minister. I am a local elected official from a difficult city where there are many people who suffer and I think that we need firmness, that we need social action. There are times when I can have differences with the Prime Minister, I sometimes have differences with the President of the Republic. Afterwards I am in a parliamentary hierarchy that I respect, but politics is still about having opinions and a debate of ideas.”
Why did Gérald Darmanin display the front page of Libé in his office, which reminds him that Elisabeth Borne is “coping” him? The Minister of the Interior responds at #Dailypic.twitter.com/tSXjJl9DxB
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And to conclude: “It’s an asset. My wife doesn’t think the same as me, we can discuss it. From these arguments sometimes comes a truth. I find that today’s politics, and particularly our majority, has sometimes lost a little of this policy. There are few elected officials in government, few local elected officials and I think that I owe a lot to the president of the republic and a little to the people who made me mayor and deputy. So sometimes I wear their word and if you don’t like it, too bad.” That’s what it says!
V.B.