Bruno Retailleau is particularly angry against the current strategy of the National Rally. The Minister of the Interior warned on Monday that censorship by Michel Barnier's government would “push France into the abyss”. He therefore took advantage of being in front of LR activists in Paris to challenge Marine Le Pen.
“If a motion of censure were voted on tomorrow, it would be a regime crisis, a financial crisis which would throw France into the abyss, particularly the weakest,” said the minister in front of nearly 500 people gathered by the LR federation of Paris , chaired by Senator Agnès Evren.
The growing threat from Marine Le Pen
In his intervention, he targeted the leader of the RN who had reiterated in the morning her threat to censor the government, following a meeting with Prime Minister Michel Barnier devoted to the budget.
“The little political-media world is panicking because this morning, between dog and wolf, we saw one of Marine Le Pen's eyebrows move a little more than usual,” quipped the minister during a speech of nearly 45 minutes in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a historic stronghold of the right. He directly challenged the boss of the RN by asking her questions about the consequences of censorship which could lead, in his eyes, to the arrival of the left in Matignon.
“Does she think that purchasing power would be better defended by (the environmentalist MP) Sandrine Rousseau who wants the right to be lazy? “, he asked. “Would the security of the French be better ensured if, let's take an example at random, (LFI deputy) Louis Boyard were in my place, he who affirms that the police kill? “, he added.
Retailleau sees himself as a “sower”
In front of activists who cheered him on their feet, Bruno Retailleau admitted that he did not know “how much time we will have to act”, but pledged to “act quickly” so that the French could see the results of his policy “in the coming months”.
In his meeting-like intervention, the minister, on the other hand, ruled out any presidential ambition. “What matters to me is not harvesting. I am a sower,” he assured, believing that it did not matter to him that others reap the fruits “of the seeds of authority and firmness that we sow.” “At least I know that they will benefit French people,” he stressed.
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