Since taking office, the two men have regularly displayed their opposition through microphones. “The differences have been blown out of proportion a bit, even if there are real nuances between them“, slips a ministerial advisor. This Thursday, for the first time since their arrival in government at the beginning of September, the former socialist Didier Migaud, Minister of Justice, and his counterpart at the Interior, LR Bruno Retailleau, displayed a united front.
In the cross-interview granted exclusively to Provencethe two men with radically opposed political backgrounds engage in an unprecedented exercise. To play, faced with the growing threat represented by drug banditry and organized crime, the card of sacred union.
On the eve (they are coming this Friday) of their coming to Marseille to announce a first round of measures “applicable quickly“, it was at the Chancellery, Place Vendôme, that the meeting was scheduled for this Thursday morning. No implication in the choice of location.”This is the protocol order“, smiled Didier Migaud after a second of hesitation.
To respond to the threat posed by drug banditry and its networks”cartelized“, the two ministers want to rely on the bill resulting from the senatorial and transpartisan commission of inquiry. The fight against drug banditry”requires total resolve from the entire government” as well as “the mobilization of all political forces in a spirit of national unity“, declared Prime Minister Michel Barnier who received the two ministers this Thursday afternoon in Matignon.
Message received at least in the Socialist Party. “We will not fail“, affirmed Thursday during a press conference PS senator Jérôme Durain, who led the work of the senatorial commission of inquiry alongside LR Étienne Blanc. “The entire left must now engage in this fight“, added Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, present at his side.
For Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud, the challenge is obvious: to manage to legislate against drug trafficking with a fragmented Assembly and to create unity within a government which itself does not agree on everything.
