So much for the surprise effect. Announced on Monday, December 23, the retention of Bruno Retailleau as Minister of the Interior was already assured on Thursday, December 19. The Prime Minister did not wait for the official green light from the Republicans (LR) to dub the most media-friendly of his resigning ministers on France 2: « [S]es orientations respond to what part of public opinion is asking. » Bruno Retailleau burned with the desire to stay while François Bayrou could not afford the luxury of his absence although he did not share the doctrinaire stiffness of the former Villiériste in matters of immigration. The political reality of the moment forces him to compose. Bruno Retailleau was the central piece of right-wing participation in his government, the one likely to unblock the others.
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François Bayrou, in parallel with his discussions with Laurent Wauquiez and Mathieu Darnaud, presidents of the LR deputies and senators respectively, was forced to carry out in-depth negotiations with his future interior minister. Barely appointed to Matignon on December 13, the Béarnais received Mr. Retailleau in the evening. “Bayrou does not intend to negotiate with political movements, he discusses with the personalities he wants to see enter or stay”we analyze in those around Laurent Wauquiez to justify this haste.
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