While the majority is floundering in the polls, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took advantage of the political committee of the Renaissance campaign this Tuesday to send several messages about European women.
Tuesday April 30, 2024, the political committee of the campaign for the European elections of the majority met, at the headquarters of the Renaissance party in Paris. The opportunity for Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to set the record straight in Macronie. The latest Odoxa poll for Public Senate and the regional daily press is indeed nothing reassuring for the presidential party.
The RN list led by Jordan Bardella still leads the way with 32% of voting intentions. Valérie Hayer, representative of the majority, comes in second position and is credited with 15.5% of voting intentions, now closely followed by Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS/Place publique list (12%). In this gloomy context for Renaissance, Gabriel Attal tried to take back the reins.
“No public holiday when we are in the countryside”
The ministers would not be involved enough for his liking in the European campaign. “We have to multiply where it is useful. May 9 will be a very big mobilization: each minister will have to make a trip within his ministerial perimeter to promote the European assessment.” The message is clear, the Prime Minister is not satisfied. “No public holiday when we are in the campaign” he asked his ministers before the first political committee of the Macronie campaign.
“We are the only ones who know where we want to take Europe”
The latter also believes that the other parties would not be committed like his to Europe. In addition, the National Rally is in the lead, and rather by a large margin, and to top it all off, the Socialists are starting to close their gap on the house candidate, Valérie Hayer. “We are the only ones talking about Europe. For Nupes, it is the primary of the 2027 election: Mélenchon and Glucksmann say it. They are all against nuclear power, all against the recovery plan, all against Asylum Immigration Pact” of the EU, he said. This is why the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic summoned his troops to “talk about Europe” and to “hammer” four themes more important than anything else in his eyes: agriculture, the environment, reindustrialization (dear to the President of the Republic) and defense.
He also took the opportunity to try to legitimize the European program and the action of the Renaissance party: “We are the only ones who can really move Europe forward. We are the only ones who know where we want to take Europe, unlike the “All we have to do is, we have to” on the left and the “one day it’s yes, one day it’s no” of the RN” he continues. Finally, the head of government regretted that “each voice that is missing from us (for Renaissnce, editor’s note) is a voice for Frexit in pieces”.