Gérald Darmanin is he heading towards the end of the cumulation of his mandates? The Minister of the Interior, at the heart of several controversies, seems to be taking this path. To do so, he announced Wednesday evening that he had resigned from the Hauts-de-France Regional Council and that he would make known “soon” his decision on his mandate as mayor of Tourcoing, after having discussed it with his municipal team. . He has been a member of the regional body since 2015.
Break away from Xavier Bertrand
The question is now to know what is the origin of this choice. Did he resign at the request of the President of the Republic since there was no rule requiring him to do so? " Not at all. I resigned because as Minister of the Interior, my time is very busy and I can no longer devote myself to this mandate, ”says Gérald Darmanin. The reason would actually be more political. "Symbolically," says a northern elected official, "it is a way of showing that he is cutting the cord with Xavier Bertrand", president (ex-LR) of Hauts-de-France, whose presidential ambitions are closely watched by Emmanuel Macron.
Regarding his mandate as mayor of Tourcoing, Gérald Darmanin explains that he will make his decision known "soon". According to the jurisprudence established by Lionel Jospin in 1997, a minister cannot direct a local executive. Admittedly, this is an unwritten rule, but the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had sanctuarized it in September 2019. "It is not healthy to combine the two in the long term", a elsewhere also recently tried the person concerned. The next Tourcoing city council is scheduled for July 18.
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