France: Larcher requests the reappointment of Retailleau to the Interior

LR President of the Senate Gérard Larcher asks François Bayrou for “a road map that will help unblock the situation” and pleads for his party colleague Bruno Retailleau to be reappointed to the Ministry of the Interior, in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche.

“The Prime Minister will have to confront everyone with their responsibilities,” believes the President of the Senate who spoke on Saturday with François Bayrou in Matignon, believing that the current crisis “imposes overcoming, provided that this is done with clarity and without denial.

In this interview, he said he expected from the new head of government a “clear roadmap which would allow us to unblock the situation and bring together all those who place France above their personal future”.

“Meet the expectations of the French on sovereign issues”

His party conditions its participation in François Bayrou’s government on the fact that he presents his “project” in order to know its orientations before committing.

If the Republicans chose to join the new prime minister, then Gérard Larcher pleads for the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau to be reappointed to Beauvau.

In just over two months at the ministry, the former boss of senators LR has “given impetus, shown that there was a political will to act and respond to the expectations of the French on sovereign issues,” he believes. he, adding that the minister appeared during this period “as the strong man” of Michel Barnier’s government.

“We need continuity in public action”

“We need continuity in public action and I ask that he be reappointed to the Ministry of the Interior to pursue the policy that the French expect and that France needs,” says Gérard Larcher.

The resigning Minister of the Interior went to Matignon on Friday evening for a meeting with François Bayrou to talk about “security”, including that of the Pope in Corsica on Sunday, or the situation in Mayotte, swept away by a cyclone SATURDAY.

His very right-handed profile crystallizes the annoyance on the left. In an interview with Le Parisien, the boss of the PS Olivier Faure warned that he would censure the government if it presented a new immigration law, taking up the provisions rejected by the Constitutional Council in the previous one, as proposed by Bruno Retailleau.

“Olivier Faure confirms his worrying blindness”

Asked whether the minister can be reappointed, Olivier Faure replies: “He can. Should he? No”.

The president of the group of LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, reacted strongly to Olivier Faure’s interview: “what Olivier Faure threatens to censor is above all the popular will. The vast majority of French people expect our country to regain control over immigration and we need Bruno Retailleau to be able to pass a new law to restore order at our borders,” he wrote on X.

Macronist MP Charles Rodwell estimated on the same network that “by refusing any discussion on immigration, Olivier Faure confirms his worrying blindness”. “François Bayrou and our coalition cannot give in to this whim,” said the deputy belonging to the right-wing Renaissance.

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