Mayalène Trémolet / Photo credits: BERTRAND GUAY / AFP / PASCAL GUYOT / AFP
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07:56, January 19, 2024
Gabriel Attal is working on his general policy speech, which he will deliver on January 30. To prepare for this, the head of government is meeting the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella this Friday. A meeting between two men who seem destined to one day compete for the pinnacle of power.
They are called “the best enemies”. We compare their respective ages, 34 and 28, and their meteoric rise. Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella meet this Friday. Officially, it is a simple consultation of the Prime Minister to develop his general policy speech, as he has been doing for several days with other party leaders, which he will deliver on January 30. But in fact, it is also the meeting of two rivals.
The two men seem destined to one day clash for the pinnacle of power
It is the meeting between two lifelong adversaries who are only waiting for one thing: to confront each other politically. If they build parallel careers, otherwise, everyone opposes them.
The first to go through the Alsatian School and Sciences-Po is part of the lineage of Emmanuel Macron. The second grew up in an HLM in Seine-Saint-Denis. He is the heir chosen by Marine Le Pen to succeed her one day.
Young guns who monitor and compare themselves since their early entry into politics, but esteem and appreciate each other in private according to their respective entourage. Like Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella is young. Proof, according to him, that he can now claim high responsibilities.
A duel with a view to the Europeans
Meeting this Friday in Matignon, both must exchange their points of view on the course of the new Prime Minister. An interview like a confrontation between the head of government and the president of the National Rally, impatient to throw himself into the European ring. The start of a long series of elections which should oppose them in the years to come.