Gabriel Attal challenged from the beginning by the heavyweights of the bulk | EUROtoday

This Wednesday, January 10, the model new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, is predicted on the Ermont-Eaubonne police station, in Val-d’Oise. Gérald Darmanin waits within the chilly, alongside the mayors and deputies of the division to welcome him. The one who has occupied the Ministry of the Interior since 2020, accustomed to the place, opens his arms and shows a broad smile when the previous Minister of Education, nearly ten years his junior, will get out of his sedan.

The authorities of Elisabeth Borne, to which Gérald Darmanin belonged, was pressured to resign the day earlier than and the brand new government staff has not but been fashioned. Before having fashioned his authorities, Gabriel Attal orchestrated, below the attention of the cameras, his second journey since his appointment to Matignon twenty-four hours earlier, this time alongside Gérald Darmanin.

This media launch ought to illustrate the significance given to“republican order” and to this “right to a peaceful life » which Emmanuel Macron defended in an interview with Figaro of April 2021. In this model police station, Gabriel Attal listens to the police officers praising the “beautiful operations” carried out to dismantle deal factors or prosecute rioters who smashed public buildings throughout the disaster of city violence that the nation skilled in the summertime of 2023. “We didn’t give up,” assures a police officer, describing an idyllic collaboration between the police and the justice system which made it doable to place the troublemakers behind bars. Gérald Darmanin, within the background, stays silent however can’t repress a mocking look. It can also be his work that’s praised.

Gabriel Attal admits this and greets, throughout a press briefing, the“major investment” led by Gérald Darmanin with the orientation and programming regulation of the Ministry of the Interior. “Obviously, we are going to continue this investment because it is what we owe to the French who aspire to be able to live peacefully in our country”, concludes the Prime Minister, earlier than turning on his heel with out responding to the media, wanting to query him about his selection to look, so rapidly, with Gérald Darmanin. An indication that the destiny of the latter is not a thriller.

“Everyone has to help”

Tuesday night, throughout an Élysée dinner which lasted nicely previous midnight, the Prime Minister labored along with his new chief of employees, Emmanuel Moulin, the pinnacle of state and the secretary common of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler , to the structure of its future authorities.

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