"A leader is made to be a leader," said Jacques Chirac. But the former president had the bottle, which confers authority. It's not so easy when the leader is (much) younger than his troops. Even more delicate, when those who have him as their boss today had him yesterday under their orders. Thus, at Bercy, until six months ago, one of Bruno Le Maire's deputy ministers was named Gabriel Attal (before his promotion to the Ministry of Education).
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It is no coincidence that the outgoing Minister of the Economy, and even more so his colleague Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, another heavyweight, have almost self-reappointed to their posts in the future government, is no coincidence. For Gabriel Attal, "the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the Fifth Republic", at the age of 34, the challenge is to impose his mark, his grip, from the outset.
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