Gabriel Attal is expected this Tuesday to present his roadmap to the National Assembly. A look back at the general policy declarations which marked the Fifth Republic.
Michel Debré inaugurated the practice on January 15, 1959. In 1988, distant echoes of Martin Luther King's emblematic speech escaped from the perch of the Assembly. In 1991, Édith Cresson confronted the misogyny of the political class from being called "on being" during the entirety of her short mandate.