Gabriel Attal affirmed, Tuesday January 16, that he planned to deliver his general policy declaration before Parliament on Tuesday January 30, with the ambition of “building and nurturing it” by meeting upstream with “all” of the political groups. This declaration allows any new Prime Minister to present his program to deputies and senators.
“I proposed to the President of the National Assembly”, Yaël Braun-Pivet, that “the general policy declaration could be held on January 30”, declared the Prime Minister before the National Assembly during its first session questions to the government, explaining that he wanted to “build it and nourish it with all political forces”. To do this, he will receive “all the political groups represented in Parliament”, will also “exchange” with trade union and employer organizations and associations of elected officials and will “travel on the ground, in contact with the French”.
“Press the accelerator with strong measures”
Gabriel Attal received the secretary general of the CFDT Marylise Léon on Tuesday afternoon in Matignon, and on Wednesday evening that of the CGT Sophie Binet. Thursday, he will receive the president of Medef Patrick Martin, as well as the right represented by Eric Ciotti, president of the Les Républicains party, Bruno Retailleau and Olivier Marleix, respectively leaders of LR senators and deputies. On the same day, he will receive François Asselin, head of the CPME, and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, after receiving the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher on Tuesday. Friday, it will be the turn of the secretary general of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot and the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella.
On Monday he will receive the socialists Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the party, with Patrick Kanner and Boris Vallaud, respectively leaders of the PS senators and deputies. It remains to be seen whether Gabriel Attal, deprived like his predecessor Elisabeth Borne of an absolute majority, will hold his government accountable at the end of the speech. No Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic with a relative majority has asked for a vote of confidence on his declaration of general policy.
Before the majority deputies meeting in an intergroup on Tuesday morning, and again a few hours later before the National Assembly, he promised “to step on the accelerator with strong measures”, but said he was “lucid” on the “uncertain” economic and “tense” political contexts. Gabriel Attal wanted to “continue to encourage work” because it “allows us to finance our social model, our public services and solidarity” and placed the emphasis on “public services” which he wants to be “always more efficient”. Because these French people who earn “above what they need to have to be able to benefit from aid and below what they need to have to be able to get by on their own” risk switching “towards a political offer which may seem attractive” but who, in his votes, “never put himself on their side”, he warned, in an allusion to the National Rally, given favorite in the European elections.