GErald Darmanin finally apologized. “If I have offended anyone, I will gladly regret it,” he explained, on the LCI channel on February 10, about his interview with journalist Apolline de Malherbe, two days earlier. “No, but don’t be offended, calm down, Madame, it’s going to be fine”, replied the Minister of the Interior, after a disagreement with the BFM-TV interviewer about the quantified assessment of his security policy.
It is in a much less exposed position that Gérald Darmanin appears for the first time in The world, in a short article by Pierre Jaxel-Truer, October 17, 2009, about a partial legislative election in the department of Yvelines. The future minister is briefly mentioned as « campaign manager of David Douillet », then victorious UMP candidate.
“When I come across people on the left who are rather unfavorable to me, I drag the conversation to their children or their pets, it always works. » Gerald Darmanin in 2012
It was not until July 6, 2012 that this young political shoot was the subject of a portrait. At 29, he is the “new youngest” of the National Assembly after his election as deputy in Tourcoing (North). “Despite a student look and a youthful face, the new parliamentarian is already an experienced politician”, analyzes the journalist Eric Nunès.
The chosen one reveals his strategies in a few formulas: “Loss builds victories if they are analyzed finely” ; “Stoicism is a great weapon in politics, you shouldn’t rush, but wait for the error to come from the other” ; Where “When I come across people on the left who are rather unfavorable to me, I drag the conversation to their children or their pets, it always works. You have to create empathy. »
His middle name, Moussa
Thanks to this tactic, Gérald Darmanin was then elected mayor of Tourcoing in March 2014. He is the “figure of a popular right”, July 25, 2014, in an episode of the series “They will make the world”, written by Alexandre Lemarié. The journalist attacks his article on the succession within the UMP of the time. “Young wolves are waiting their turn. Gérald Darmanin is one of those,” he specifies.
The newly elected mayor of the long left-leaning northern city is described as a “new in class” to whom voters can say, “Unlike the old ones, you’re not rotten yet!” ». He highlights his humble origins – « Being a child of the poor is a driving force because you are hungrier than the others. I understood very quickly that I had to have a different life from my parents. – and his middle name, Moussa.
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