An obligatory passage. This Tuesday, Gabriel Attal appeared before parliamentarians to deliver his general policy speech and revealed the executive’s roadmap for the months to come. This is an unmissable meeting for every Prime Minister taking office. A speech that took place, this time, in the midst of farmers’ revolt. Here is everything you need to remember from the head of government’s announcements.
The main information
- Gabriel Attal delivered his general policy speech to the National Assembly this Tuesday at 3 p.m.
- The head of government announced, among other things, a reform of State Medical Aid before the summer
- The Prime Minister also called for the launch of an ecological civic service with 50,000 young people
- Gabriel Attal said he wanted to “discard” France
- On the front of the agricultural crisis, Attal announced that all aid would be paid into the bank accounts of farmers
- The conditioning of the RSA to 15 hours of weekly activity will be generalized by 2025
“Being French in 2024 means being able to be Prime Minister and openly homosexual”
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal referred to his homosexuality on Tuesday during one of the most solemn political moments, his general policy declaration to the National Assembly, seeing it as proof that “mentalities are changing”. “Being French in 2024 means in a country which, only ten years ago, was still torn over marriage for all, being able to be Prime Minister by openly assuming one’s homosexuality,” he declared in the sentences closing of his speech. “From all this, I see proof that our country is moving, proof that mentalities are evolving,” he added.
Gabriel Attal discusses “the right to abortion within the Constitution”
“Conquering new rights means recognizing and tirelessly defending the right of women to control their bodies. We will include the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy, within our fundamental text, within the Constitution”, announced Gabriel Attal on Tuesday.
Announcements around CAP aid
“By March 15, all CAP aid will be paid into the bank accounts of farmers. And we will work with the regions so that aid for the installation of young farmers can be paid in the coming weeks,” declared Gabriel Attal.
Towards “a French-style ecology”
Ecology without the people is paving the way for social crises and renunciations. On the contrary, we will continue to build together a popular ecology,” declared Gabriel Attal, adding that he wanted “a French-style ecology, with the French and for the French.”
“An ecological civic service” to come
“Succeeding in the ecological transition is the challenge of our generation. Our youth want to get involved, participate, help. They are wondering how to be useful for the planet. This is why we will launch an ecological civic service, which will bring together by end of the five-year term 50,000 young people ready to make a concrete commitment to the climate”, developed Gabriel Attal.
“Nuclear power, a French pride”
“Thanks to sobriety, renewable energies and nuclear power, we will ensure our energy independence. I want to say it without ambiguity: nuclear power is a source of French pride. Nuclear power is a major asset for our country. I fully assume responsibility for to be at the head of a pro-nuclear energy government”, launched the head of government.
“A law on Mayotte”, announced by Gabriel Attal
“Our overseas territories also concentrate all the challenges: against the high cost of living, for employment, for security, for health, schools, the fight against illegal immigration and the ecological transition. Each of our public policies must take into account the specificities of Overseas Territories. I am committed to this. And to deal with the exceptional challenges facing its territory, we will table a law on Mayotte,” said Gabriel Attal.
“Level groups” starting this year in middle school
“Works of educational interest”
“I am announcing to you that we will create work of educational interest”, launched Gabriel Attal in order to administer “adapted sanctions for minors under 16 years of age”. “We are not always responsible for the way our children go astray,” he added.
“When we don’t come to the doctor and we don’t come without warning, we pay”
“I want a simple principle, which translates into clear measures this year: when we have an appointment with the doctor and we do not come without warning, we pay,” declared the Prime Minister at the time of ‘mention the “millions of hours” which “are lost while they (the French) sometimes wait months for an appointment”.
The Prime Minister speaks on health and in particular the mental health of young people
The head of government wants to go “further” in the face of medical deserts, “by restoring on-call obligations for self-employed doctors, in the evenings or on weekends, in their offices, in hospitals or in nursing homes”. Gabriel Attal also spoke about the mental health of young people. “Discomfort, depression and suicidal thoughts have increased significantly among our young people. I want to make the mental health of our youth a major cause of our government action. Here too, with clear and immediate measures.”
“A reform of State Medical Aid before the summer”
“We must assume responsibility for welcoming less in order to welcome better,” declared Gabriel Attal who announced a reform of State Medical Aid (AME), “before the summer”, and “by regulatory means”. The head of government assured that he would keep “the commitment” of his predecessor Elisabeth Borne, “to reform state medical aid” for undocumented foreigners. The former Prime Minister had promised it to the right during the negotiations on the immigration bill. “We will do it before the summer by regulatory means”, on the basis of the report by former PS minister Claude Evin and Patrick Stefanini, LR figure, he said.
“We must go further in reforming unemployment insurance”
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal confirmed on Tuesday the government’s desire to go “further in the reform of unemployment insurance”, indicating that he will ask the social partners to negotiate new rules if its financial trajectory “deviates”. “We will also fight all inactivity traps,” added the head of government, who recalled that the executive was maintaining its “full employment objective”.
“Debureaucratize France at all levels”
“I want to lighten the burden of rules and standards which weighs on those who create our VSEs and our SMEs, on all these French people who work tirelessly and create activity and employment”, developed Gabriel Attal in the hemicycle.
“A second green industry bill”
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced Tuesday that he was going to table “a second green industry bill”, which “will notably propose to ask” the National Commission for Public Debate “to concentrate its work solely on green industry projects”. national scope. “It will be six months saved in the procedures for the other projects: the bureaucracy which retreats, it is freedom which advances,” argued the head of government during his general policy speech.
Unemployed people at the end of their rights will no longer have a specific allowance and will be switched to RSA
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal declared on Tuesday that unemployed people at the end of their rights would no longer have a specific solidarity allowance allowing “without working, to validate quarters of retirement” and would switch to Active Solidarity Income (RSA). “We have a strong conviction and consistency: we consider that retirement must be the fruit of work. And therefore we will propose the switch to the solidarity allowance specific to the RSA and the abolition of this allowance,” declared the Prime Minister .
New conditions for the RSA
In 18 departments, an experiment which conditions the RSA to 15 hours of activity per week will be launched. The system will be generalized by 2025, said Gabriel Attal.
Attal asks ministries to experiment with “the four-day week”
“I ask all ministers to try the four-day week, for all of their constituents,” asked the Prime Minister. And added: “From now on, this staff must be able to work the same hours as everyone else, that is to say with office hours.”
“No one is asking for a ‘right to be lazy’”, assures Gabriel Attal
“Seeking a more efficient and less costly social model is not a bad word, it is an imperative.” “I measure, in my generation as in others, the changes in mentality, the new expectations, on schedules, on availability, on the balance between professional life and family life. At the risk of disappointing some here, no one asks of ‘the right to be lazy'”, continued the Prime Minister.
“Dismicardize France”
“We cannot accept a France where many are condemned to remain close to the minimum wage for their entire career. Salary progression must always make it possible to reward effort and merit. So yes, I can say it, we must de-emphasize France”, insisted the Prime Minister. “We must therefore change a system which has led us to concentrate our aid at the level of the minimum wage. This system, which is the fruit of successive reforms, has placed our economic world in a situation where no one has any interest in increasing the minimum wage employee”.
“I want to address all these French people, often from the middle class”
“We must ensure that those who go to work earn more than those who do not work,” declares Gabriel Attal in particular, who wishes to address “these French people in the middle, too rich to benefit from aid, but not rich enough not to count, who have the feeling that decisions are made without them and that they always benefit the same people.
Attal speaks about farmers
“Our agriculture is a strength because it constitutes one of the foundations of our identity. Our farmers embody fundamental values,” declares the Prime Minister, assuring that “there must be a French agricultural exception” and adding that the executive would be “on point, without any ambiguity”.
“I refuse that our identity can be diluted or dissolved”
“In a world where everything is accelerating and transforming, I refuse that our identity can be diluted or dissolved,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal declared on Tuesday before the National Assembly. “France has its rank to maintain, its voice to make heard, its singularity to impose: we have French pride to maintain, European pride to consolidate,” continued the head of government, repeating his wish to “confront for move forward”.
The left has already tabled a motion of censure
Even before Gabriel Attal spoke, the LFI, socialist, environmentalist and democratic and republican left groups tabled a motion of censure, as confirmed by Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly.
General policy statement from Gabriel Attal: the LFI, Socialists, Ecologist and Democratic and Republican Left groups tabled a motion of censure before the Prime Minister spoke.#DirectAN#DPGpic.twitter.com/MseO9UYzWs
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The Prime Minister speaks
“France will never be a country that suffers. “France is a benchmark, an ideal, a moral heritage, a protective social model, envied throughout the world,” declares Gabriel Attal in the preamble to his speech. Our generation sees its world turned upside down, it is prey to doubt, about its identity, about who we are, about our social model,” he added.