Louis de Raguenel // Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
The 100 days of Gabriel Attal is this Thursday. If it is too early to draw an initial assessment, the Prime Minister knows that the hardest part is ahead of him. The host of Matignon is faced with a double problem. First, he must urgently find 20 billion euros in savings. But also, he does not have an absolute majority. In this context, it is not easy for the Prime Minister to carry out important reforms.
Gabriel Attal has set himself other challenges, despite financial difficulties and the absence of an absolute majority: maintaining good relations with the head of state. Gabriel Attal has a one-on-one lunch every week with the president, which was not the case for Elisabeth Borne. He knows that the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister could deteriorate without the latter being able to realize it.
Work on political relations
Another challenge remains: avoiding having to assume a possible failure in the European elections of the list led by Valérie Hayer which continues to decline in the polls. To finish, Gabriel Attal tries as best he can to work on links with the right, in particular Gérard Larcher, Bruno Retailleau and Eric Ciotti.
And do everything to avoid a motion of censure from the Republicans after the summer. A motion that could overthrow his government and reshuffle the cards for the rest of the five-year term and therefore the 2027 presidential election. If he has not declared himself a candidate to succeed Emmanuel Macron, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic is doing so. observation that no candidate within the majority stands out at the moment. So there is a mouse hole.