A start of emancipation? Two and a half months after being appointed to Matignon, Gabriel Attal intends to make his little music heard against Emmanuel Macron. Guest on Wednesday evening on TF1's “8 p.m.” to announce the government's latest decisions in order to reduce the public deficit, after the announcement of its deterioration this week, and to undertake reforms on work and unemployment insurance, the first Minister was also questioned about his room for maneuver and his freedom of action in relation to the President of the Republic.
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Recalling first of all that he
"applies with the Head of State the program on which he was elected before the French",
Gabriel Attal then pointed out that the four-day week, of which he wishes greater experimentation ,
“was not in the program.” “It’s me!”,
he said.
“Even before the 2022 re-election, in the previous mandate, as minister, I had already carried these ideas. Then, I implemented them when I was at Bercy,”
argued the head of government.
“Everyone also brings a sensitivity and ideas. Ministers are the same. Things are not necessarily in the program, and members of the government may have ideas...",
insisted Gabriel Attal.
The comparison with Fabius
While the opposition did not fail to mock his appointment as prime minister, calling him in turn a
“spokesperson”
for Emmanuel Macron, a simple collaborator, or even an anti-Bardella weapon, Gabriel Attal, more young appointed Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic, drew the parallel with the one who held the record for juvenility until January: Laurent Fabius. The same one who launched in 1985
“him, it’s him; moi, c’est moi”
on television to better distance themselves from then-president François Mitterrand.
“At the time, when (he) was appointed, there were exactly the same words, the same criticisms about a “collaborator”. But that's not what matters to me,
the head of government wanted to temporize.
What matters to me is being useful and taking action.”