Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday that he planned to deliver his general policy declaration to Parliament on Tuesday, January 30, because he intends to “build and nourish it” by meeting “all” of the political groups. “I proposed to the President of the National Assembly” that “the general policy declaration could be held on January 30,” declared the Prime Minister during his first session of questions to the government, explaining that he wanted to “build it and nourish it with all political forces”.
To do this, he will receive “all the political groups represented in Parliament”, will also “exchange” with trade union organizations and associations of elected officials, and will “travel on the ground, in contact with the French”.
Will Attal ask for a vote of confidence?
It remains to be seen whether Gabriel Attal, deprived like Elisabeth Borne of an absolute majority, will hold his government accountable at the end of this speech. No Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic with a relative majority has asked for a vote of confidence on his declaration of general policy.
Gabriel Attal is due to receive the secretary general of the CFDT Marylise Léon on Tuesday afternoon in Matignon, and on Wednesday evening that of the CGT Sophie Binet. Before the majority deputies meeting in an intergroup on Tuesday morning, and again a few hours later before the Assembly, he promised “to step on the accelerator with strong measures”, but said he was “lucid” on the “uncertain” economic and “tense” political contexts.
Focus on public services
Gabriel Attal wanted to “continue to encourage work” because it “allows us to finance our social model, our public services and solidarity” and placed the emphasis on “public services” which he wants to be “always more efficient”.
Because these French people who earn “above what they need to have to be able to benefit from aid and below what they need to have to be able to get by on their own” risk switching “towards a political offer which may seem attractive” but who, in his votes, “never put himself on their side”, he warned, in an allusion to the National Rally, given favorite in the European elections.