During his political return to Tourcoing this Sunday, September 29, Gérald Darmanin announced the creation of a “new place of reflection” called “Populaires”.
Former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin gathered his political entourage in Tourcoing this Sunday, September 29 for his return to school. As expected, the mayor of the northern city turned to “the most modest”, going so far as to announce the creation of a movement, called “Popular”.
“I suggest, within a new place of reflection, that everyone can join, to take the time to think about the future,” declared Gérald Darmanin in front of some 500 people.
A movement which will be called “Popular”, he clarified in particular in front of Édouard Philippe and Élisabeth Borne, “as if to remind us every day that only the inspirations of the people count”.
The former tenant of Place Beauvau spoke of a “rupture” between the central block and “modest people, popular French people”.
“This sociological rupture must profoundly awaken our conscience,” he added. “We cannot let popular France ignore us and ourselves ignore popular France.”
“Work no longer pays”
Gérald Darmanin also devoted time during his speech to “social determinism which hits working-class families hard.”
“The role of the central bloc that we represent is to take head-on the fight against social determinism, a poison that affects us because it makes hope impossible,” he underlined.
Repeating several times that “work no longer pays”, he also proposed to Michel Barnier’s government “to create the single social payment as quickly as possible”.
“Thanks to the withholding tax system, we could now pay in one go all the social assistance to which each person is eligible – while limiting them to 75% of the minimum wage so that, never again, not working brings in as much as the effort to work”, exclaimed the mayor of Tourcoing, calling to talk about “preference for workers rather than talking about national preference”.
The opportunity for him to affirm that “many of them will not support a government that would like to increase taxes”.
“This would be contrary to everything positive we have done for the French,” he warned.
“I understand that this tax increase would only concern the wealthiest French people, but the money of the wealthiest must go into job creation, not into public coffers,” argued the former minister.
