Attal outlines his style by focusing more on continuity than on rupture. The praise of small “compromises” leaves room throughout the intervention for the iterative and vertical “I assume” The “at the same time” now links liberal intonations to the demand for authority.

The robotic tone was outweighed by the machine-gun delivery of a thirty-year-old who swallowed the 56 pages of his speech - and several words - in less than an hour and a half.