Three weeks after his appointment, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic, Gabriel Attal, delivered his general policy declaration this week to parliamentarians. He laid out his program for the coming months. A complicated exercise, even though the president has placed a right-wing framework on Gabriel Attal. The Prime Minister multiplied the words dear to the Republicans during his speech. The “macronie” therefore leans rather to the right with this new government.
Reform of unemployment insurance, RSA, tax cuts, “ simplification of standards »… The right dreamed of it, Gabriel Attal promises. Measures which caused a surge on the left side of the hemicycle. Gabriel Attal has taken up proposals defended for a long time by Les Républicains. The left immediately portrayed the Prime Minister as “Margaret Thatcher version 2024”.
A possible convergence with the right?
To pass its laws, the majority has no other choice than to turn to Les Républicains.
And precisely, these right-wing deputies are not fooled, even if they are affected by these appeals. LR MP Antoine Vermorel Marques wrote just after Gabriel Attal’s speech on the social network X: “ The words are finally on the right. Will the actions be? Let’s give this speech the benefit of the doubt “. But right-wing elected officials are still hampered around the edges.
For a member of the majority, “ the LRs no longer know where they live. They are destabilized “. According to her again, the majority is in the process of “ finish catching right-wing voters, even more so with this reshuffle. The most radicalized? They will go to the extreme right “.
And the left wing of the majority?
In small touches, Gabriel Attal still took care during his speech to intersperse a few left-wing agreements to bring the “at the same time” to life and calm this left wing angry since the vote on the immigration law, but energized by the decision of the Constitutional Council, which restored balance to the text.
And at the end of the general policy speech, a Modem deputy confided: “ yes, it leans to the right, but some of the demands are satisfied “.
If the deputies of the left wing had met at the end of the year, then at the start of the parliamentary term, in order to discuss solutions to make themselves heard, the meetings have since come to a standstill.
The fault also lies in a second wave of the reshuffle which still does not come, and from which certain parliamentarians from the left wing still hope to benefit.
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