Bruno Retailleau is revealed in a documentary on CNews

Does it thank Providence? Or the hazardous poker of Emmanuel Macron last June, who rebatted the cards in the Assembly? After thirty years to frequent, influential but discreet, the aisles of power, of the General Council of Vendée in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau is now a strong man of the government. Of “Key” From the alliance between center and right, according to an expression of Maud Bregeon, spokesperson for the short Barnier.

With a suddenness worthy of the equestrian shows in which he participated in Puy-du-Fou, these last seven months have propelled him to the front of the stage. The CNews channel, not insensitive to its charms, devotes a documentary to it, Beauvau man. In order to probe the reasons for its popularity and better distinguish the personality from the one who will soon oppose Laurent Wauquiez for the Presidency of the LR.

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Far from caricatures

Director Louis Morin followed him for six months. Long -term work. The immersion requires long hours of filming. And a certain talent to slip into the decor in order to capture, for example, the exchanges of an interior minister at home, in Vendée, joking with his friends on his meeting with the pope. Bruno Retailleau is certainly not François Hollande or the late Jean-Louis Debré, to quote political figures in the sense of well established humor, but he shows during this sequence another face.

This is the feeling that this documentary gives: Bruno Retailleau does not quite stick to his image. To these round glasses and this severe tie that perhaps jealous of tax collectors. “We discovered a man with a panel of emotions that finds him far from caricatures. We wanted to show it. The emotional spectrum is very important in politics “abounds Louis Morin, author last January of a portrait of another presidential, Gabriel Attal. Who turned out to be, in the film in question, as good communicator as bad actor …

No comedy at Bruno Retailleau, faithful to his ideas and his sacrosanctness firmness. “What strikes me is that it remains the same in all circumstances, it does not make” actor studio “”confirms Louis Morin, also columnist on CNews. The Minister, at the cost of a small sprain with his respect for the French language, thus campaigned for the “Talking true”. The guilty of drug consumers as, more recently, the tightening of the conditions of access to naturalization, Retailleau “Assumes”. As he does not fear the media storms that his positions trigger.

“The controversies are usedhe believes before his troops. Especially when the one who creates it is not hidden under the table. »» Understand, himself. It would be necessary to look in this franchise and this energy the reasons for his upturn in the polls according to Carole Barjon, of The political and parliamentary review. Franz-Olivier Giesbert, now far from his New observer original, add: “He does a job that has not been done for a long time”.

« Originally, Bruno Retailleau had not applied to be Minister of the Interior ”

Louis Morin

His pensions in Saint-Malô-du-Bois

His tours in the police stations (“I am proud to be your minister, from the bottom of my heart”), the reception of François to Ajaccio (“In France, we have secularism but also the office of worship”he slips to the pope), the Algerian file … “The man of Beauvau”, who has not imposed any particular condition on the set, is revealed in his saturated daily life. He greets, inquire, reassures. Serves hands, thinks of Vendée, praises the state and secularism. “He sleeps very little and lives like an athlete”testifies Vincent Trémolet de Villers, deputy director of the editorial staff of the Figaro. Who remembers his return from Mayotte disfigured by the cyclone: “We felt that he had been confronted with something he had never seen in his life, in terms of violence, devastation, pain. »»

The athlete regularly puts on a twisted sweater in Saint-Malô-du-Bois, where he finds his bocages, his old bell towers, his eight sheep and the memories of the charcuterie of his grandfather. Authenticity, true? What, in any case, print the mark of a “rooted” politician. Useful, no doubt, to dream further, higher, than Beauvau Square. “Bruno Retailleau has given me a confidenceresumes Louis Morin. Originally, he had not applied to be Minister of the Interior. Even if he knew the subject of immigration well, it must be remembered that in the Senate, he dealt with economic files. »» It would be too late today to no longer think about 2027. “In a way, he is grayed out of the popular support he receives. »»

After Édouard Philippe, Éric Dupond-Moretti and, therefore, Gabriel Attal, the former president of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire has the right to his brushed portrait on television. A way, like the memories and programmatic tests to which policies do not resist policies, to hold the attention of opinion? “The heritage aspect interested him moreobserve Louis Morin. There has been a way of leaving a lasting trace of its action. He is aware that a ministerial post is ephemeral. »» Michel Debré warned that we remain less minister than old minister …

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