Gabriel Attal goes so far as to say that the Republican left and right are making a “guard of honor” to the National Rally by sparing Marine Le Pen and focusing their criticism on the government.
He even goes further, he suspects them of wishing a victory for the RN.
“They undoubtedly believe that the election of Marine Le Pen will cause such a shock, he tells us, that it will allow them to be reborn and to rebuild their political health: it is an act of absolute cynicism.
In fact, the oppositions hope to emerge from nothing through chaos.
The government spokesman also flays his former political family, the left: "a photo shoot is not a common program".
After the Rambouillet attack, does the government intend to step up its fight against terrorism?
GABRIEL ATTAL.
Additional resources for intelligence, creation of the national anti-terrorism prosecution, hardening of our legal arsenal, closure of radicalized places of worship ... Our action since 2017 has consisted in tightening the net.
Thanks to this, we thwarted 35 terrorist attacks: it's one every 6 weeks.
Today, the threat is evolving.
We are dealing with relatively isolated people who become radicalized in particular via social networks in a flash.
We must continue to protect ourselves and adapt.
And you are going to take new legislative measures?
On Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers, Gérald Darmanin will present a new text on the fight against terrorism. We have been working on it for several weeks. One of the axes will be to improve the follow-up of individuals convicted of terrorism and who leave prison. These include improving the socio-judicial follow-up of terrorists and radicalized people, extending the administrative surveillance measures for those who leave prison from one to two years. The text will also make it possible to better identify individuals who radicalize in isolation via social networks. It is a text carried by the Minister of the Interior who actively mobilized the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of the Armed Forces and the intelligence services.
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Is not it, as hammer it the right and Marine Le Pen, in particular, the admission of a failure?
Each attack has its victims, its sufferings but also its vultures ... Fighting terrorism is not on the right or on the left.
I refuse to use terrorism to play politics ...
It seems that all the opposition is on the line "everything but Macron" ...
The majority is the last and the only one to want to fight Marine Le Pen.
Today, the oppositions of the right as of the left spare the RN and the extreme right.
I would even say that they pamper them.
But by dint of sparing him, they make him a guard of honor.
They undoubtedly believe that the election of Marine Le Pen will cause such a shock that it will allow them to be reborn and to restore their political health: it is an act of absolute cynicism.
In fact, the oppositions hope to emerge from nothing through chaos.
Does the demonization of Marine Le Pen make her more dangerous for Emmanuel Macron than in 2017?
It is first reinforced by the ideological emptiness of the opposition.
Marine Le Pen rushes into the breach and takes the opportunity to put the veil on all the irritants of her 2017 campaign. Europe, the economy… She adopts the position of the person to whom she speaks, she has become the popesse of ambiguities.
But it is no less dangerous: its election would lead to economic chaos and that we know that it would govern with people like Frédéric Chatillon or Axel Loustau, who were condemned for apologizing for Nazism ... These are the people- there that we would find in the ministries and at the Elysee in the event of an election.
Marine Le Pen is “no, no, nothing has changed”.
For you, Xavier Bertrand would be a heavy opponent?
For the moment, Xavier Bertrand has especially shown his ability to push open doors.
Include secularism in the constitution?
It's already done.
Reduce production taxes?
That's what we did.
A one-year prison sentence for the perpetrators of violence against the police?
The law already provides for more ... I am waiting for his first personal proposal to be able to express myself.
You are from the Socialist Party.
Could a united left be a threat for Emmanuel Macron?
The left say they want to unite, but a photo shoot is not a common program.
Since 2017, they have had four years to reinvent themselves.
Result: they are always in political navelism and never talk about ideas.
The reality is that they have nothing to do with each other and do not agree on anything: certain socialists and Yannick Jadot are closer to us than to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
By the end of the five-year term, will you resume the pace of reforms?
Separatism, global security, climate, senior civil service…: even during the health crisis, we continued to reform.
We all hope that with vaccination, we will be able to turn an important page of the epidemic in the summer.
It is obvious that we will have to act and reform until the last minute.
Lifting the pencil is not on the program.
The polls surprisingly show that Emmanuel Macron's left-wing voters in 2017 are more loyal to him than right-wing voters.
What lessons do you draw from it?
Some say our base has changed, in reality it has grown.
Studies show that four out of five voters who voted Emmanuel Macron in 2017 are ready to do so again in 2022. They also show that we are gathering more, both among the voters of Benoît Hamon and François Fillon.
The "at the same time" is not a soft synthesis, on the contrary, it is a "radical" policy based on clear choices and concrete actions tackling the root problems which go further than would have gone. left and right in all areas.
