The Minister of the Interior spoke for the first time, Monday, on the disputed eviction of the senior official stationed at the prefecture of Indre-et-Loire.
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The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, spoke for the first time, Sunday 1 er January, on the dismissal of the prefect of Indre-et-Loire, Marie lajus , by denouncing “a lot of lies” around this case on BFM-TV.
In This declaration From Mayotte, where he is on the move, Mr. Darmanin said that the decision to dismiss the Prefect of its functions had “nothing to do with real estate projects”. “But sometimes to each other’s behavior,” he added Sibylline. The eviction of Marie Lajus has aroused unprecedented mobilization of local elected officials, parliamentarians, managers of associations and an old general prosecutor in Paris through a petition, a platform and letters.
The supports of M me explain that it has been dismissed for opposing a project to set up an incubator of research projects in the park of the Louise-de-Châtre -Le-Vallière, in Reugny, which had irritated elected officials. “We have all considered, continued the minister, in the responsibility which is ours, and I take my responsibilities, that we had to change when things were not going.” “A state representative must be unassailable and respectable and when it is not the case, I take my responsibilities as head of the administration,” he accused without citing the name of the prefect.
Monday, when he took office, Patrice Latron, the successor to M me Lajus, held a press conference during which he mentioned this dismissal. He thus argued that in the “exciting profession” of prefect, there were “easements”.
“In these easements, he said, there is the fact that we are available to the government. We are revocable Ad Nutum, that is to say a sign of head. It’s part of the conditions of exercise of the profession. It must be integrated. It is extremely unpleasant when it happens to you (…) but you have to integrate it. It’s like that! “Gérald Darmanin had also insisted on The fact that the prefects were appointed to the discretion of the government. Their appointment is decided in the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, the Head of State having the last word.