The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, brought together his entire government on Saturday February 10 in Matignon, in full since Thursday, to set the “calendar and priorities” for the coming months and include them in “the daily life of the French”.

After a month-long reshuffle period which dragged on to produce an executive without many new faces, it was for Gabriel Attal to show a "government pack" which is "at work", in the words by Prisca Thevenot, the government spokesperson.

“Collective action and tangible results for our compatriots. This is what I asked the members of my Government,” the Prime Minister commented on X.

Collective, action and tangible results for our compatriots.



This is what I asked the members of my Government. pic.twitter.com/WcvcnHjGxV

— Gabriel Attal (@GabrielAttal) February 10, 2024

The 35 members of the government were present for the seminar which lasted two and a half hours, with the exception of the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu.  

“We are really in action”, affirmed Prisca Thevenot at the end of the seminar, ensuring that Gabriel Attal’s “approach” consists of “listening, dialoguing and also following the decisions that have been put in place”. “We must now be sure (that the measures) are in the daily lives of the French (and say) in transparency, in honesty, but in responsibility, where it worked and where we must be able to review the copy if there is needs,” said Prisca Thevenot.

The other members of the executive left Matignon in light rain without making a statement. 

After introductory remarks by the head of government, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, took stock of the economic situation, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné, was to speak on the international situation and the European elections in June.

For the Prime Minister, barely appointed by the agricultural crisis and the teachers' revolt, and this week by the attacks of the historic ally of the President of the Republic, François Bayrou, it is a question of regaining control of the story at the start of this mandate.

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“If we do not impose our own political calendar ourselves, we expose ourselves to repeated crises,” we explained to Matignon, in an allusion to the mobilization of farmers.

Gérald Darmanin in Mayotte on Sunday

As the government only has a relative majority in the National Assembly, it must also decide which measures must be passed by law and which will follow the regulatory route.

After the seminar, Gabriel Attal should speak in the Sunday press, Matignon said.  

The opposition criticized the Attal method: "a merchant of promises", for the RN deputy Sébastien Chenu, a "credibility already lost" for the LR MEP Geoffroy Didier in an interview with Le Point.  

After the seminar, several ministers immediately went into the field, like the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who went to Besançon (Doubs) to present an assessment of the 155 "clear space" operations carried out over the past few years. last four months nationally. According to him, this dismantling of drug trafficking led to more than 1,270 arrests and the seizure of two tons of drugs.

The minister will fly to Mayotte on Sunday with the new Minister for Overseas Territories, Marie Guévenoux, to address the security crisis and prepare an operation "Wuambushu 2", "against delinquency and illegal immigration".

During this trip, they will exchange "with the active forces" of this French department in the Indian Ocean, affected by an acute water crisis and paralyzed since January 22 by roadblocks installed by "citizen collectives" to protest against insecurity and uncontrolled immigration.

For her part, the Minister of Labor, Catherine Vautrin, announced on on territorial health access".

On the ground, in the Loiret, with concrete results of government action on territorial health access:



👉 visit to a local hospital having benefited from €1.9 million in Ségur credits to renovate the establishment and his nursing home


👉 meeting with 1 of the 114… pic.twitter.com/u9M2azAL4t

— Catherine Vautrin (@CaVautrin) February 10, 2024

With AFP

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