Until the end, Rachida Dati wanted to show that she was in charge. While it was expected that his departure would be announced during a mini ministerial reshuffle, the former Minister of Culture anticipated the call and presented his resignation to devote himself to the municipal campaign in Paris.
She will also have waited to close the “Louvre sequence” and thus claim to have had the head of Laurence des Cars, to ensure his replacement by Christophe Leribault and to have influenced the appointment of Annick Lemoine at Orsay. In a unity of time (nearly 24 hours) and place (The Elysée Palace), the events followed one another in a very theatrical dramaturgy.
The press this morning is not kind to her. For The World : “Rachida Dati leaves the Ministry of Culture with a record marked by announcement effects but few achievements”. Release : “Rachida Dati leaves her ministry, after two years of cultural confusion”. Le Figaro title on the comment of one of his opponents: “His method was to shake things up and see how it took”. “Ms. Dati leaves Rue de Valois with a taste of unfinished business”, Press Correspondence.
It must be said that the ex-minister was able to alienate a good part of the public media with his law on public broadcasting which ultimately will not see the light of day or at the very least is postponed indefinitely. If her frank speaking was the delight of the newspapers, her tempestuous interviews on radio and television gradually disqualified her a little. And now that she is no longer in the Government and is a “simple” candidate for municipal elections, it is a safe bet that the attacks against them will multiply. For example, by recalling that the date of his trial before the Paris Criminal Court is set for the fall. He accused him of having improperly received 900,000 euros from a Renault-Nissan subsidiary between 2010 and 2012.
His replacement has not yet been announced but should be announced in the next few hours, the president having had plenty of time to think about it.
