“We made mistakes”: the confidences without wooden language of Gabriel Attal

He confided. The presidential elections are fast approaching since they will be held on Sundays 10 and 24 April. It was in May 2017 that Emmanuel Macron became President of the Republic and he hopes to remain so. A few days before the first round, the interviews follow one another and it was Gabriel Attal who was the guest of the Touche plateau not at my post this Friday, March 25. The opportunity for the government spokesperson to discuss the mandate of the Head of State and to recall that it has not been easy. Indeed, Emmanuel Macron had to do in the face of yellow vests, strikes, the health crisis and for several weeks, to the war in Ukraine. However, Gabriel Attal ensures, in complete transparency, that the government has “makes mistakes“. On his set, Cyril Hanouna first asks him what “note you would put to this mandate? 20?“. To which the principal concerned retorts: “I am not objective. I would not say 20 because I do not consider that everything was successful or that we did everything we would have liked to do“, he concluded.

He justified himself. Faced with Cyril Hanouna and the columnists, Gabriel Attal provided details: “I don’t consider that we didn’t make mistakes. We did, there are things that were missed and there are things that we would have liked to do“. Quickly, the presenter tried to learn more. “There are steps we took that we shouldn’t have taken“, he assured before adding: “For example, when we increased the carbon tax on gasoline in 2018, there was the Yellow Vests movement, we should have given up on that“. Gabriel Attal also mentioned the “the 80 kilometers per hour, it should have been done with more flexibility to let the territories adapt and do things according to their needs“. And concerning the management of Covid-19? “There were mistakes. I have no example of a country that has managed this crisis perfectly. She surprised everyone and us too“, he said. However, the government spokesman assures that, despite the errors, there are “a good record, particularly in terms of the drop in unemployment“, he concluded.

Emmanuel Macron: is he confident for his re-election?

On the set of Cyril Hanouna, the government spokesperson chained the confidences and in particular the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. But what does the main concerned think? “It is not at all sure to be elected again“, he said before adding: “When I talk about it with him, he tells us that nothing is decided, nothing is done“. As a reminder, the current President of the Republic had waited before formalizing his candidacy. It is in a letter published in the regional press on March 3 that he had done. An initiative that did not go unnoticed but which surprised no one.

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