Arthur de Laborde / Photo credits: ARTHUR N. ORCHARD / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 08:02 a.m., January 31, 2024
Gabriel Attal delivered his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon. He unveiled the government's roadmap for the months to come and marked, for 1 hour 20 minutes, his positioning on the right.
Gabriel Attal delivered his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday. An 80-minute speech to convince the hemicycle. A watchword: simplification. One desire: to fight against the minimum wage. The Prime Minister posed himself as a defender of the value of work and the middle classes. A catalog that Nicolas Sarkozy would not have denied.
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A Sarkozy tone
The tone was sometimes Sarkozy in this general policy speech. On work for example, it must always pay better than inactivity, explained Gabriel Attal announcing the generalization by 2025 of the system conditioning the RSA on 15 hours of activity.
On identity, the Prime Minister posed as a defender of the French who have the feeling that their country is moving away: "In a world where everything is accelerating, where everything is transforming, I refuse that our identity can be diluted or dissolve."
Societal reforms to counterbalance a right-wing discourse
Gabriel Attal also insisted on authority. He announced the creation of work of educational interest for minors under 16 years of age, confirmed his desire to generalize the wearing of uniforms at school. And summed up his state of mind in the face of delinquency: “You break, you repair. You dirty, you clean. You challenge authority, you are taught to respect it.” And as if to counterbalance this generally right-wing discourse, the Prime Minister is banking on societal reforms such as the end of life, with a bill on active assistance in dying examined before the summer or the inclusion of the right to IVG in the Constitution.