Headlines: Gérald Darmanin, embodiment of the Macron “at the same time”

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By: Norbert Navarro

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Minister and mayor "  at the same time  ". Gérald Darnamin says he was "  authorized  " by Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe to combine "  for a time  " these two functions. The Minister of Action and Public Accounts has just found his seat as mayor of Tourcoing, the second city in the north of France.

In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche , Gérald Darmanin said it straight away: “  the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister had authorized me to be a minister and a candidate. They authorized me, for a time and given the exceptional circumstances (linked to the coronavirus epidemic) to exercise these two functions. But without accumulating remuneration: I will not receive the mayor's allowance  , ”says Gérald Darmanin to the JDD.

True "  at the same time  " Macronien, indeed, since the unwritten rule "  wants that a minister cannot be at the head of a local executive  ", recalls Le Parisien Dimanche . Which newspaper reports that yesterday, at the city council of Tourcoing, in the north, the minister was arrested by an elected official from the National Rally, who addressed this remark to Gérald Darmanin: "   During this campaign, you lied knowingly to the locals. Despite appearances, you will not really be mayor. Part-time mayor, part-time minister . "

Buzyn uncertainty in Paris

The election to the mayor of Paris, it will be on June 28, if the sanitary conditions allow it. But the uncertainty remains on Agnes Buzyn. The former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn will she still top LREM in the capital?

In the absence of an answer, food for thought to read in the women's magazine Elle . Which newspaper first questioned "  the great head of the Republic on the march, Stanislas Guerini, who rarely moves an ear without the approval of Emmanuel Macron  ". On May 8, Stanislas Guerini declares: Agnès Buzyn “  will represent herself in Paris (…) I chat regularly with her, and I don't believe for a second that she cannot return to the arena  ”, he said to Elle .

But that was more than two weeks ago. And She also gathered the confidences of mathematician Cédric Villani. The day after the first round, the dissident candidate of LREM called the ex-Minister of Health, who came in third position in the municipal election in Paris. "  On the phone, he attended that day" complete, absolute cracking  "of Agnes Buzyn. "  She is crying, devastated, and eminently touching in her vulnerability,  " confesses Cédric Villani. This women's magazine also reports that certain members of the Villani team, present at the time of the phone call, also remember, like him, that she then seems “  determined to make a cross on her political career. She wants, they report, "to give up definitively" the race for Paris  ".

Rokia Traoré keeps guard high

After her police custody and her detention in France, the Malian singer Rokia Traoré has returned to her native country, but the legal conflict which opposes her to her ex-Belgian partner Jan Goossens for the custody of their little girl remains.

According to "  M  ", the magazine of the newspaper Le Monde , Rokia Traoré would have "  pressed the nuclear button  " by sending "  to her ex-spouse and his brother - but not to the police -, a video filmed at the end of March 2019 in which the little girl describes sexual touching on the part of her father. In countless e-mails and text messages accompanied by administrative documents, family photos, sexual allusions implicating her former companion, Rokia Traoré first spoke at length about this video, before (…) urging ( "M") not to talk about it, reports nevertheless "M" . "

Which weekly collected the testimony of Jonathan Littell. Prix ​​Goncourt 2006 and close to Jan Goossens, the author of the novel Les Bienveillantes wonders: “  I don't understand why she did that. There is no limit in the weapons it is ready to use. I am very sad, disappointed, shocked  ”. In an oppressive judgment of August 19, 2019, the Brussels French-speaking court of first instance wrote: "  The recording reveals at least a manipulation of the child  ".

And " M " goes further by writing that "  the singer accuses the relatives of Jan Goossens of having lied by inventing a common life in Brussels, in order to allow Belgian justice to rule. " They don't know anything about me," (…) she assures (to "M"), insisting by SMS that their testimonies not appear in the article  "of this weekly. It missed.

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