Politics: no state of grace for Gabriel Attal, hot week ahead
While farmers threaten to block Paris to make their demands heard, a high-risk week begins Gabriel Attal. The Prime Minister tried to resolve the peasant crisis this Sunday, but this is not the only obstacle he will have to overcome in the coming years.
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, on January 28, 2024 traveling to La Riche, near Tours, in central France, to try to appease the anger of the agricultural world. AFP - ALAIN JOCARD
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Gabriel Attal has not yet celebrated his first three weeks at Matignon when he already finds himself plunged into a crisis. The
farmers' movement
is in fact far from being resolved and the next few days will be decisive, recalls
Aurélien Devernoix
, from the Politics department. While face-to-face confrontations between farmers and the police are taking shape around Paris, a spark and the situation could take an explosive turn. The head of the main union in the sector, the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, declared this Monday morning that he was to have an interview with the minister during the day.
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The days would then become very long before the Agricultural Show scheduled for the end of February, a deadline by which the government hopes to have calmed the anger.
The Prime Minister who will also have to hold on to the opposition who are just waiting for a misstep. However,
Gabriel Attal
must deliver his general policy speech tomorrow, Tuesday, which will be followed by a motion of censure promised by the left. It's up to him to avoid any ruts in the next 48 hours.
A battle that the head of government will have to fight alone: barely returned from India, Emmanuel Macron leaves for Sweden on Tuesday before a stopover in Brussels on Thursday.
And in the meantime it will be necessary to decide on the composition of the government: several important positions remain to be filled: housing, energy, transport. Not to mention the persistent controversy pursuing the Minister of Education and Sports, Amélie Oudéa Castéra. She is questioned on issues concerning the two portfolios for which she is responsible:
education
and
sports
. In short, it is the week of all dangers which opens for Gabriel Attal.
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