They are both young and ambitious, they embody the future of their parties: Gabriel Attal, the new Prime Minister designated by Emmanuel Macron and Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally dubbed by Marine Le Pen. The Attal-Bardella duel will begin with the campaign for the European elections.
Their match promises sparks and punchlines, because Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella are both speakers, they are part of those politicians who do not give up, who speak well, who speak clearly, good clients for the media. And the appointment of Gabriel Attal to Matignon was immediately analyzed in view of the European elections in June. For a ministerial advisor, the new Prime Minister is a choice “ clever who delights the French » and in fact registers “ in the strategy of the match against Bardella », the head of the RN list, which is at the top of the polls. Gabriel Attal is a bit like the promise of the magic potion to stop the progression of the RN.
Good news for the RN
But that doesn’t scare the RN. On the contrary, they are delighted. “ This is good news… It legitimizes the fact that we can have responsibilities between the ages of 25 and 35 “, we estimate in those around Jordan Bardella. This is the boomerang effect of the desire for rejuvenation displayed by the President of the Republic with the choice of his new 34-year-old Prime Minister. No longer possible to say that Jordan Bardella is too young to be credible. And to get the message across, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella gave a joint interview to Sunday Newspaper just after the reshuffle in which they presented themselves as a ticket for 2027. Moreover, an elected representative of the majority is not mistaken, for him “ this is the response of the shepherdess to the shepherd “.
Succession ?
It is also the succession that is at stake. Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella both seem to be in orbit to embody the post-Macron and post-Le Pen era. Heirs in a way, even if in Marine Le Pen’s entourage, we don’t really like this term – which ” minimizes » they say – which is what Jordan Bardella is by himself. Emmanuel Macron – he – made very strong compliments to Gabriel Attal even before appointing him Prime Minister and he is not accustomed to doing so. The president praised his “ energy “, her ” courage “, was delighted to have at his side someone who ” shared his struggles from the beginning “, in short of having brought out a ” talent “. A talent that resembles him, capable of taking up the torch in the fight against the heir of Marine Le Pen.