After the divisions on the left, would there be three presidential candidates for the price of one on the right? Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, seems to think so. guest of Political issues on France Inter, associated with France Info and The worldthe LR defector judged that “the demagogic proposals” in terms of security of far-right candidates were to be put “in the same basket”, like those of the leader of the right Valérie Pécresse who proposed to send the “army into the difficult neighborhoods”.
“Madame Pécresse, Mr. Zemmour and Mrs. Le Pen” are “candidates of the past”, added the minister. “We understood where the congruent part of the right that were the LRs is now going: towards the far right”, continued Gérald Darmanin. “This is what had prompted Madame Pécresse in the past to leave the LRs which were “wauquierising”, she said”, he scolded, in reference to the departure in 2019 of Valérie Pécresse from the party then led by Laurent Wauquiez.
The “Gaullist, liberal, centrist” right “naturally” supports Emmanuel Macron
“The Zemmour-Le Pen debate over television channels is becoming clumsy and does not interest many people”, he judged, the day after two of their meetings, respectively in Lille and Reims. He questioned “the polarization towards two terrible children of the French political class, in which the president of the Ile-de-France region wallows.
“The Gaullist, liberal, centrist, European right, which is concrete and pragmatic, which has no hatred of foreigners, but which considers that order is needed in our country, naturally supports the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron “, not yet declared a candidate, assured the minister.