After Éric Dupond-Moretti, Gérald Darmanin or Agnès Pannier-Runacher, here is another minister embarking on the battle of the Regionals on behalf of the presidential majority. This time, however, no question of going to challenge the National Rally in Hauts-de-France - or in the Paca region by approaching the Republicans. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal will indeed be a candidate in Hauts-de-Seine, as we wrote earlier this week. He is thus the fifth member of the executive to stand in Ile-de-France on Laurent Saint-Martin's list, just like before him Amélie de Montchalin, Marlène Schiappa, Emmanuelle Wargon and Nathalie Elimas.
And RTL to confirm this Sunday that the youngest representative of the executive - and the youngest member of a government under the Fifth Republic at the height of his 32 years - would be a candidate more symbolic than truly eligible since he will be the last place on the list led in the department by Aurélie Taquillain.
A first place that, according to our information, Gabriel Attal had declined leaving the elected Courbevoie for 15 years leading the LREM list in the department.
A new challenge for the outgoing departmental councilor, who obtained last March the best score of the presidential party in the Hauts-de-Seine (32% in the first round).
Ex-LR, just like Thierry Solère, deputy for Boulogne and second on the list, Aurélie Taquillain is now campaigning for Laurent Saint-Martin with Xavier Iaccovelli, senator elected under the PS label who has also joined LREM. "The Republicans would never have placed me at the head of the list", estimated at the beginning of the week the candidate, before estimating that it was about "the strength of LREM": "to trust the youth and to add the expertise and know-how. "
