Gabriel Attal never says the word taboo. The 2027 presidential election, he swears, is still too far away to occupy his mind. Evoking him, even with lip service, is, in his eyes, “premature”said. This Wednesday, October 30, when he spoke by telephone with the worldThe former prime minister has just pinned a medal on his jacket to claim the succession of Emmanuel Macron. Here he is alone on the road to run, on December 7, for the presidency of the Renaissance presidential party. Elisabeth Borne, who was going to confront him, threw in the towel the day before and accepted a consolation position at the head of the party’s national council.
Even the former Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, his rival, admits victory by knockout. of the Vanves elected official. Already on the front line in the National Assembly, where he presides over the group of Macronist deputies, Gabriel Attal, 35, is assuming control of the party, a potential war machine that is expected, sooner or later, to become a stable. presidential.
“We needed an incarnation like the one in the other two blocks with Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the New Popular Front and with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella on the extreme right”applauds David Amiel, deputy (Together for the Republic, EPR) from Paris.
The thirty-year-old, who put his feet up on his desk and claimed to have “a story to write with the French” In The point on September 19, try not to sin out of arrogance. If Edouard Philippe, president of the Horizons party like Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is at the starting line of the race towards the Elysée, calm down: “Political life is long. “Days are like months and months are like years.”
A reputation as a predator
Everything could change, he knows it. Just four months ago, the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 broke his wings while he occupied Matignon. Disgusted by the Head of State’s decision, Gabriel Attal gave up for a few hours. To the point of thinking about leaving politics? “In those moments many things go through your mind. “It’s human.”admits. After leading the legislative battle, here he is again at the helm. “I’m trying to move on. To move forward »He stated, convinced that he could save the centrist group from a death foreseen by the head of state’s adversaries. “I believe in the reactivation of our political family”says.
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