Jacques Serais
Gabriel Attal’s recent announcements were not enough to calm the anger of farmers who planned to surround Paris. Despite this tense situation and a teachers’ strike planned for Thursday, the new Prime Minister must deliver his general policy speech to deputies on Tuesday.
This Tuesday promises to be a special day for the recently appointed head of government. Gabriel Attal must indeed appear before parliamentarians on Tuesday to deliver the traditional general policy speech. He is the one who is on the front line and the Prime Minister is facing a decisive week, while his announcements have done nothing to calm the anger of the farmers.
“Raise standards at all levels”
A founding act for any new host of Matignon. Gabriel Attal knows it, he will not only have the farmers to please. He began outlining his statement on Monday. “We must continue to better value work. And that will be the heart of my general policy declaration,” he declared. “Our public services, first and foremost education and health, must be met at all levels.”
And after the farmers, some of whom have not ruled out traveling to the vicinity of the Assembly on Tuesday, it is the main teaching unions who will be on strike on Thursday. The week promises to be even longer for Gabriel Attal as he will not be able to count on Emmanuel Macron to free himself from some of this pressure. The president takes off for Sweden on Monday, he will be on a state visit until Wednesday, before the extraordinary European Council which will take place on Thursday in Brussels.