Gabriel Attal resisted a first social crisis by succeeding in convincing farmers to put away their tractors.
But it is within a part of his majority, of which he is the leader, that the jacquerie is now rumbling.
By publicly stating on Wednesday evening his refusal to join the government, François Bayrou deliberately tested the authority of Gabriel Attal.
Of which, it is no secret, he was opposed to his appointment to Matignon.
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When the president of MoDem and mayor of Pau evokes
“the gulf that has widened between the province and Paris”
to illustrate the absence
of “deep agreement on the policy to follow”
which leads him to distance himself from the executive, it is Gabriel Attal he is targeting.
The meeting between the two men turned sour a little earlier when François Bayrou's entry into the government was on the table.
Faced with the lack of enthusiasm from the Prime Minister, the centrist then denounced a
“step of humiliation”
in front of parliamentarians…
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