Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, justified his presence on Wednesday, May 14, his presence in the Government, despite the rejection of the previous day by Emmanuel Macron the day before an immigration referendum, in response to his rival to the presidency LR Laurent Wauquiez, who sees the risk of a “erased” of the right in the maconic one.
“Like Gaullist, I tell myself that we are right (…), we were right when entering the government to stop on the left,” said the Vendéen in CNews/Europe 1 after the television interview with the head of state.
“I am a Gaullist, but I am not yet a macronist. I have real differences with the President of the Republic, for example, about immigration,” he added, in response to Emmanuel Macron’s rejection of a referendum on immigration as requests the right and RN.
“Avoid the worst”
“I do not deny anything at all,” he said, asked about his presence within the Executive and the fact that he will probably return to him, as Interior Minister, to organize a referendum about the end of life, an issue in which he disagrees with Emmanuel Macron.
“We decided, on the right, to return (to the government) avoid the worst, block the mixed left,” he defended, ensuring that “everything will be played in two years,” at the end of the second five -year period of Emmanuel Macron.
In France 2, his opponent as president of LR Laurent Wauquiez has struggled to instill doubts about the independence of the Interior Minister, four days before the internal elections that must decide with each other on Sunday.
“If the leader of our party is at the same time Minister, that is, with the solidarity of the Government (…), the law may no longer embody the break,” he warned, convinced that this situation would lead to “a right that vanishes in macronism.”
“You’ve seen that it began,” he added, taking the example of the Yvelines department where the president of the Gérard Larcher Senate, support from Bruno Retilleau, “he began to talk with already Braun-Pivet, which comes from socialism, to distribute the task and the municipal elections together.”
“I don’t agree with the municipal plane”
“For me, that is the death of law and I don’t want that,” he added, saying that he is convinced that the future of law “is to embody a real change.”
In CNews, Bruno Retailleau replied that “I would not have agreed on a device for municipal elections,” but emphasized that in the municipalities that are in the hands of the left “it will be necessary to block these people.”
“I have designated the opponent and this opponent, obviously, we will have to do everything possible to fall,” he said.
For his part, Laurent Wauquiez begged a “correct concentration” by Gérald Darmanin, whose work greets in the government, in Sarah Knafo, not to mention his party of Reconquista or his leader Eric Zemmour.
“It’s not the extreme right,” he said about the MEP. “If we start with moral judgments, we will never leave,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
