Gérald Darmanin does not hesitate to twist reality if that can guarantee him a good communication operation.

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ELIOT BLONDET-POOL / SIPA

A beautiful sleight of hand.

Gérald Darmanin announced on Saturday that the municipal council of Tourcoing, a city of which he remained mayor until mid-September, had endorsed his desire to pay his unaffected mayor's allowances, amounting to 20,000 euros, to the Société protection des Animals (SPA).

“This morning, in the municipal council of @ TourcoingVille, promise kept: the 20,000 euros which represent the mayor's indemnities not touched, will be paid to the @ SPA_Officiel to help abandoned animals in this difficult period.

Boris is licking its paws!

»Wrote the Minister on his Twitter account, supporting video of his cat adopted at the Tourcoing SPA.

This morning, in the municipal council of @TourcoingVille, promise kept: the 20,000 euros which represent the mayor's allowances not affected, will be paid to the @SPA_Officiel to help abandoned animals in this difficult period.

Boris is licking its paws!

pic.twitter.com/aAGphUEtdN

- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 12, 2020

According to a report appearing in the minutes of this municipal council, available on the website of the town hall, "the non-payment of the mayor's allowance to Gérald Darmanin from May 23 to September 6, 2020 generated an envelope of order of 20,000 euros ”.

Except that this envelope does not belong to Gerald Darmanin but to the budget of the municipality and only a deliberation of the municipal council can decide the allocation.

In fact an exceptional grant

And that's exactly what happened since the council had to decide on the payment of an exceptional subsidy of 20,000 euros to the SPA of Tourcoing, which should be used to help individuals who want to sterilize or identify their cat.

What according to Gérald Darmanin, would correspond to the famous 20,000 euros of the mayor's allowances, and allows him to ensure a good communication operation on social networks.

Note that for a simple deputy delegated to attractiveness, the Minister of the Interior has a sacred influence on the deliberations of the municipal council.

From there to seeing an instance of orders ...

In any case, the roundabout did not please the opponent environmentalist Katy Vuylsteker.

"Decidedly there is no lack of nerve #Darmanin to accuse the opposition of political politics by defending a deliberation which he decided to make a coup to his personal credit six months ago.

Nb: we did not wait for you to defend animals, ”she responded, also on Twitter, her environmental opponent.

In #CMTourcoing: definitely there is no lack of nerve #Darmanin to accuse the opposition of political politics by defending a deliberation which he decided to make a coup to his personal credit 6 months ago.


Nb: we did not wait for you to defend animals pic.twitter.com/5JOTuz4XV9

- Katy Vuylsteker 🌻 (@katyvuylsteker) December 12, 2020

Minister LREM became mayor of Tourcoing again on May 23, finding a seat occupied between March 2014 - when the young elected then stamped UMP had delighted the city to the PS - and September 2017. Gérald Darmanin did not resign from his post of mayor when '' in September 2020, becoming a simple municipal councilor.

According to the case law established by Lionel Jospin in 1997, a minister cannot lead a local executive.

This is an unwritten rule - which has suffered exceptions (Le Drian, Sarkozy ...) - but the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had sanctified it in September 2019.

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