Like every year, between Christmas and New Year’s Day, there is the traditional “confectioners’ truce”, a period generally spent at rest. And if this respite also applies to political leaders, some of the new ministers freshly appointed by François Bayrou still decide to occupy the field. This is the case of the new Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin.
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Barely arrived at his new ministry, Gerald Darmaninwell known in France having been Minister of the Interior for more than four years under the governments of Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal, has resumed his habits. On December 25, Christmas Day, the new Minister of Justice went to a court. Then, in the evening, he was in a penitentiary center. Another visit the next day with an appearance on the widely watched TF1 television news.
It is an express return to the field for the minister, and as often, announcements accompany his trips. In 48 hours, Gérald Darmanin stated pell-mell that we must “ extend police custody for aggravated sexual violence “, ” recruit magistrates “, ” clean the prisons of their difficulties “… And then, there was also this shocking declaration: ” We must increase the budget of the Department of Justice. »
If one of the objectives is to get into the pocket of the magistrates – as he did at the time with the police –, Gérald Darmanin also wants to occupy the media space and appear as a hyperactive minister. An area in which he is in competition with the one who succeeded him at the Interior, Bruno Retailleau.
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