PORTRAIT – Known for his strict line, the former Minister of the Interior becomes Keeper of the Seals. Three months after his honeymoon with the socialist Didier Migaud, the judiciary plunged back into distrust.
The Ministry of the Interior on the right, the Chancellery too, and here is Justice which emerges from the insoluble equation created by the fleeting appearance of Didier Migaud last September. The return of Gérald Darmanin, appointed Minister of State and Keeper of the Seals, is one of the great surprises of this government. Because he is both close to Nicolas Sarkozy and close to Emmanuel Macron who inherits an extremely strategic position at Place Vendôme.
Gérald Darmanin is the one who shared the secret of the dissolution last June and who knew how to build over his successive moroccos – Budget then Interior – the confidence of the President of the Republic. Finally, he is the one who, incidentally, until last June was the “first cop in France”, so often at odds with Place Vendôme, his new political playground.
Even if he and Éric Dupond-Moretti never took their differences to the public, they were numerous and frequent…
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