Will Gabriel Attal be the new Prime Minister? If this announcement was first hoped for Monday evening, it should come this Tuesday late morning, according to Emmanuel Macron’s entourage. The current Minister of National Education is a favorite in the mind of the Head of State. Is this due to the recent Ipsos survey, at the beginning of December, which placed him in first place in the ranking of the French’s favorite policies, with 40% of favorable opinions?
“He is in pole position to return to Matignon [car] he is the favorite in the polls”
For François-Xavier Bellamy, vice-president of the Republicans and MEP, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Tuesday, there is no doubt. “What makes Gabriel Attal in pole position to return to Matignon? It’s that he is the favorite in the polls. On this account, Kylian Mbappé is also very well placed in the polls. opinions,” he said before questioning his strengths.
“What are his qualities for this? What will he have demonstrated? We give Gabriel Attal the merit of having corrected the shortcomings of his predecessor [Pap Ndiaye]. [Mais] Gabriel Attal is becoming popular for simply stating the reality of a crisis that he helped to hide for a long time,” he said.
Appointed to the Ministry of Education last July, Gabriel Attal quickly addressed the issue of secularism in schools and, a few weeks later, banned the wearing of the abaya at school. He also embarked on a major project, that of school bullying, and announced a series of measures to try to stem this scourge.
“He did not have time to do anything at the Ministry of National Education”
But beyond the ban on the abaya, the vice-president of the Republicans questions his record as Minister of National Education. “I don’t even blame him, but he didn’t have time to do anything at the Ministry of National Education. We could consider that someone is ready to be Prime Minister of France because ‘he achieved extraordinary things, because he showed, through his action, through his record, through his results, what he was capable of. What is his record? What are his actions? What is Gabriel Attal will have done anything in his life other than politics? Has he demonstrated something that could make him credible to exercise?”, he continued to question.
At 34, Gabriel Attal’s mission would be to offer Emmanuel Macron the momentum that his second five-year term never found.