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Gérald Darmanin, here in New Caledonia on February 21, 2024, gave an interview to “Paris Match”.
POLICY – Communication operation. Like many politicians before him, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin took part in the interview game with family photos in Paris Match this Wednesday, February 21. In the interview conducted by journalist Laurence Ferrari, presenter of CNews, he talks in particular about the news channel now closely monitored by Arcom.
“The French are great people, who make their own choices without needing moral guardians”estimates the minister in this interview, while the Council of State asked Arcom, the media regulator, to strengthen its control of CNews, in the fold – as Paris Match – from conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
“I do not comment on court decisions”continues the minister, but “from my point of view as a citizen, I think that it is never good for the State or any public authority to say what should be heard on television, on the radio or read in a newspaper. “If you’re not happy with what’s happening on TV, you change the channel”he adds.
In the magazine, Gérald Darmanin also talks about immigration, insecurity, De Gaulle’s France, and a little ambition. Because if his Elysian pretensions are not hidden, he refuses to expand on the subject and claims to be available until 2027 for Emmanuel Macron.
“The presidential election is extremely hard”
“Politics is hard, but the presidential election is extremely hard”confides the one who had told Figaro that a page would be turned for him after the Paris 2024 Games. Before adding that “the question of the presidential election will arise soon enough”.
Gérald Darmanin also talks about his mother, his wife, and his children with whom he appears in photos in his ministry. “We built a united, sweet and strong family”he says in this rare speech about his private life.
On the cover photo, his two little boys, Alec and Max-Emilen, are in his office while Gérald Darmanin is working. A staging which is reminiscent, as rightly noted Le Figaro, that of his mentor Nicolas Sarkozy in 2002 and even of John F. Kennedy in the 1960s. Quite a symbol.
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