In a message, Bruno Retailleau sums up his delicate equation. On January 25, the Minister of the Interior reacted to X (ex-owner) to the murder of Elias, 14, stabbed for his cell phone in Paris. He says he is “horrified”, addresses his thoughts to the adolescent family, then issues a diagnosis. “Remove a country from France where parents no longer have to fear seeing their child murdered for nothing will be a long and difficult path.” The commentary, faced with collective emotion. A promise of action over time, faced with daily dramas. The weather is a double -edged sword here. The Vendéen works for his successors, as in his fight against drug trafficking. But as they spend, the hours make the accounting minister in the opinion of facts which he denounces with emphasis. And martial awards are condemned to turn against their author.
Bruno Retailleau entered Place Beauvau to obtain results. Can a Minister of the Interior obtain positives, as its perimeter of action is devoured by affects? On the day of his entry into the street and the border “on the day of his entry into office”. When is this objective achieved? Statistics relating to delinquency figures have scientific value. But do not resist the collective emotion generated by each various fact to which a Minister of the Interior is required to react, except to undergo an insensitivity. “It is a very difficult exercise between a speaking that must be strong and results which can never be up to the words that will have been pronounced. We are in an infernal cycle”, notes a setting together for the Republic .
The regulation of immigration, priority of the minister, obeys more rationality. Even if various facts questioning illegal immigrants quickly obstruct any overview of a migration policy. The minister does not lack the room for maneuver, via his regulatory power. So much the better for him: he had to give up a great immigration law, after the censorship of Michel Barnier. His reform of state medical aid, the right totem, seems poorly engaged. Bruno Retailleau does not have the relative majority of the majority. The coalition partly links his hands to him? It may be his luck. The Minister can take refuge behind his constraints to excuse his limits. Leaving to think that its action in the ministry is also a broader promise of action, if the right returned to the controls one day. A precipitated departure, for lack of room for maneuver, could even be put to his credit. “Ruptures are never completely bad in politics,” notes a faithful of the minister. The balance sheet, a decidedly wide political object.