Christophe Castaner welcomed, Wednesday, "the appeasement" of the situation between Gerald Darmanin and Audrey Pulvar while distancing himself from the minister on his participation in the police demonstration and his threat of complaint against the socialist candidate.
The leader of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner welcomed Wednesday the "appeasement" necessary between Gerald Darmanin and Audrey Pulvar while distancing himself from the minister on his participation in the police demonstration and his threat of complaint against the socialist candidate.
"As Minister of the Interior, I do not believe that I would have been demonstrating in front of the National Assembly", as Gérald Darmanin on May 19, "above all, and the facts have shown it, when it was a question of putting involved, basically, police-justice, "said Christophe Castaner on franceinfo.
"We need in this country a strong police force and a strong justice which work hand in hand", he added.
"It was necessary to appease, he did it"
"I fully understand that this moment of gathering, of meditation, implied that we are present, we the political forces", he continued, recalling that his "group was represented" with the deputies Jean-Michel Fauvergue and Alice Thourot.
Christophe Castaner sent a satisfecit after the gesture of appeasement of the Minister of the Interior, criticized within the government itself for having threatened to file a complaint against the socialist candidate for regional in Ile-de-France Audrey Pulvar for her comments on the police.
In particular, she judged the police demonstration in front of the National Assembly "quite chilling".
Gérald Darmanin tried Tuesday to extinguish the controversy by inviting him to a meeting that she accepted.
"There were criticisms, concerns on the very fact that the political debate could be, for the regional elections, biased by this complaint and by this judicialization of the political debate, it was necessary to appease, it did it, it is well thus ", judged Christophe Castaner.
"I belong to these politicians who consider that the political debate must be political and that the judge of the political debate is the voter, not the magistrate," he added.
"Inviting to dialogue is never a back-pedaling", estimated for her part at the microphone of Sud Radio the deputy LREM Aurore Bergé, adding that the remarks made by Audrey Pulvar "are not worthy of a candidate for the presidency of the Île-de-France region ".