Probably in person on Saturday evening, and this Sunday in the press. LR President of the Senate Gérard Larcher pleads for his party colleague Bruno Retailleau to be reappointed to the Ministry of the Interior, “to pursue the policy that the French expect and that France needs”.
“Bruno Retailleau has given impetus in three months, shown that there is a political will to act and respond to the expectations of the French on sovereign issues,” he said in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche. “He appeared to be the strong man of this government, and the French are not mistaken. So, yes, we need continuity in public action and I ask that he be reappointed to the Ministry of the Interior” despite the resignation of the Barnier government, and despite the reluctance of the Socialist Party and the left.
If Bruno Retailleau expressed on Friday evening in the ear of François Bayrou his wish to remain in Beauvau, the Republican party conditions its participation in the government on the directions that the executive will take. “It is up to the Prime Minister to set the course and engage in dialogue with political forces to avoid further censorship which would have serious consequences for our country,” he adds, referring to the budget.
The President of the Senate spoke on Saturday at the end of the day with François Bayrou in Matignon, he believes that the current crisis “requires us to go beyond, provided that this is done with clarity and without denial”. The Prime Minister must set “a clear roadmap which will allow us to unblock the situation and bring together all those who place France above their personal future”. It must therefore “make everyone face their responsibilities”.
Close to Michel Barnier, Gérard Larcher criticizes “this censorship” which “has caused enough damage as it is!” » His friend “worked in almost impossible conditions” of schedule, which he recalls, as well as “in a political context of rare violence”. And to add, a bit mysteriously, “that he was subjected to external pressures which did not make his task easy!” »
