The youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic delivers his general policy speech to the National Assembly this Tuesday. Here is what should be discussed in Gabriel Attal’s speech.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal delivers his general policy speech this Tuesday, January 30, 2024 from 3 p.m. A speech closely scrutinized, particularly in the current context of heated protests in the agricultural world. His 14 ministers should be there to support him in the face of a chamber of 577 deputies, a majority of whom are clearly not on his side (329 opposition deputies).
According to information from West France, his speech should last, like that of Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex who preceded him, about an hour. Élisabeth Borne spoke for an hour and a half. On the program: the Prime Minister will detail his roadmap for the coming months. Twenty-one days after taking office, and while he has increased his trips to the field, visiting flood victims in Pas-de-Calais, going to a college, to a hospital, to a police station or even on a market, not counting his visit to a farmers’ blockade in Haute-Garonne on Friday, Gabriel Attal, who also had time to consult the party leaders, of the different parliamentary groups, as well as the unions, should speak education, security, purchasing power, access to care, ecology, housing, discussing the fate of the middle classes and, unsurprisingly, that of farmers.
Note that it is not excluded, as further underlined West France, that Gabriel Attal takes the opportunity to make some announcements, so as not to repeat Emmanuel Macron’s January 16 press conference. It also seems certain that the Prime Minister, lacking an absolute majority in the National Assembly, will not risk seeking a vote of confidence from the deputies. If the left has already promised a motion of censure, the Republicans and the National Rally have made it known that they would not vote for it a priori. Once this difficult moment has passed, Gabriel Attal will have a few hours of respite (or not), before going to the Senate on Wednesday. This time, it is in front of the senators that he will deliver his general policy speech.