Gérald Darmanin kicked off his political comeback during a rally in his stronghold of Tourcoing (North). In a department where the National Rally obtains significant electoral scores, the Minister of the Interior has hammered home his desire to block Marine Le Pen’s path to power.
“We cannot let Ms. Le Pen go irretrievably to power,” said Gérald Darmanin on Sunday during a political rally he is organizing in his stronghold of Tourcoing (North), attended by many majority figures, including Elisabeth Borne.
“A part (of the working classes) takes refuge in abstention, sometimes in democratic protest, and then sometimes for the populist vote. And I don’t want the working classes to go to a hate rally,” added the Minister of the Interior, while believing that no one can ignore that the government had “done a lot” for the working classes and medium, “particularly at the request of the President of the Republic”.
The former executive of LR, who had joined the presidential majority after the victory of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, must speak at the end of the afternoon at the end of a party claimed as “popular”, during which a hundred of majority MPs have to share sausages, fries and beers. It poses as a bulwark against the far right and its leader Marine Le Pen.
“We are here to defend a record of the President of the Republic, who has done a lot. There are four years left and there is still a lot to do, I imagine, ”said Mr. Darmanin in the preamble to the rally. “And then we are also here to say that there is a problem: we cannot let Mrs. Le Pen go irremediably to power if we are not ever more motivated. »
After several days of hesitation, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne also resigned herself to participating in the northern rally – during which she advocated the “unity” of the majority to “produce results” and fight “the populists” – while his annoyance with the Minister of the Interior appears more and more clearly, especially since the latter announced at the beginning of the month his ambition for the next presidential election. “2027 is a long way off,” the head of government had reframed.