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TRUE OR FALSE. Was Gérald Darmanin’s resignation staged?
TRUE OR FALSE. Was Gérald Darmanin’s resignation staged? – (franceinfo)
After the rejection of the immigration bill in the Assembly, Gérald Darmanin presented his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday December 11, who refused it. Accusations of political staging then appeared on social networks.
Upon the announcement of the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, which was refused by the President of the Republic, on the evening of Monday December 11, “many Internet users have questioned the sincerity of this media sequence”, indicates Nicolas Carvalho, journalist at the “True or false” unit of franceinfo, on the set of 19/20 info. A sequence that occurred after the rejection of the immigration bill in the Assembly. Some in fact believe that “it’s just showmanship” Or “the cinema”.
“Relegitimise a minister after a failure”
“If Darmanin wants to resign, he does not need the green light from Macron”, writes yet another Internet user. Is this statement true? “Yes”, says Nicolas Carvalho, citing the example of the resignation of Gérard Collomb when he was Minister of the Interior, in October 2018. He then wanted to enter the municipal race again in Lyon (Rhône). Emmanuel Macron initially publicly refused his resignation, but “Gérard Collomb explained in the press that he maintained it, before actually resigning”.
Nicolas Carvalho also recalls that two months earlier, Nicolas Hulot had announced his resignation from the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, without warning anyone, live on France Inter. For political scientist Benjamin Morel, the resignation of Gérald Darmanin is “clearly a set-up, which aims to relegitimize a minister after a failure”adds Nicolas Carvalho.
