Appointed Prime Minister at only 34 years old, Gabriel Attal finds himself on the front line in many hot issues of the executive. Mobilization of angry farmers, galloping inflation, continuation of the reshuffle… The short-lived Minister of National Education is on all fronts in Matignon or on the benches of the National Assembly. Not always attentive, however, as reproached by Boris Vallaud, deputy for Landes, Monday February 5, 2024. “You continue to talk with your neighbors back home, far from the civic rearmament of civilization. […] Mr Prime Minister, busy laughing with your ministers, while 152 workers died in our country last year, occupational diseases are exploding and health at work should be one of your objectives. You prefer to continue vaping and chatting”, had launched the president of the Socialists and Related Group in the hemicycle, while Gabriel Attal seemed casual during the examination of the motion of censure from the left.
Gabriel Attal captured by a photo… of a small dog
According to several press photos, we see Gabriel Attal at this time showing his phone to his ministers around him. While Boris Vallaud, husband of former minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, spoke about the reality of unhappiness at work, the head of government presented his smartphone screen to his colleagues around him, on which was displayed… a photo of a puppy. “Probably a chow chow”, according to Checknews by Release, Wednesday February 7, 2024. In the photo in question, published by Amaury Cornu of the Hans Lucas agency on Instagram, we can clearly see the Prime Minister surrounded by Prisca Thévenot, government spokesperson, and Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, both from behind. “He keeps looking at his cell phone while here, you are the overwhelmed witnesses of the lack of interest that the government and the Prime Minister bring to the opposition and to the parliamentary debate”, said Boris Vallaud again during his speech to the deputies, quoted by the HuffPost. Irony of history: Gabriel Attal had promised the left opposition, a few minutes earlier, to be “always listening”.