Michel Barnier guarantees “changes and ruptures” | EUROtoday
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IHe is making his entrance at Matignon. Michel Barnier, appointed by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, September 5, is now the brand new head of presidency. He arrived at round 6 p.m. within the courtyard of the Hôtel de Matignon, for the official handover of energy along with his predecessor Gabriel Attal. This started with a closed-door assembly. An alternative for them to take inventory of the information which have been on maintain for greater than fifty days.
After half an hour of discussions, the 2 statesmen arrived on the steps of Matignon. “France has a new Prime Minister. As I leave my duties at Matignon, I would like to congratulate you,” Gabriel Attal greeted Michel Barnier, earlier than “warmly” thanking Emmanuel Macron for his “trust.”
“Being Prime Minister is the honour of a lifetime […]”Being Prime Minister is never done alone because you do it with all the French people,” he continued. “I want to tell the French how much I love them,” assures the former Prime Minister, who praises “an indomitable people” and says he takes with him ” [leurs] faces, [leurs] lives, [leurs] doubts”.
“Continue to make school a top priority”
Gabriel Attal then asked his successor to “proceed to make college an absolute precedence”, because “it’s the life insurance coverage of the Republic”. “School is the mom of all battles”, insisted the outgoing Prime Minister, expressing his “gratitude to our academics, to the educating groups who’re alongside our college students every single day” and assuring that he thinks “every single day of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard”, two teachers “assassinated by Islamist terrorism” in 2020 and 2023.
In addition, the former Prime Minister also stated that “French politics is sick.” But according to him, “therapeutic is feasible offered that all of us comply with get out of sectarianism.” “Yes, there’s pessimism in our nation. French politics is sick,” he said, calling for an end to “political coups” and to stop “seeing all the things in black.”
Gabriel Attal ended his speech by thanking his government and his family, particularly his mother, before receiving a long ovation from his teams.
“We are in a critical second”
Michel Barnier, for his part, said he was approaching this new chapter in his political life “with nice humility”. “We are in a critical second”, he declared in the courtyard of Matignon. “It can be a query of responding as a lot as we are able to to the challenges, the anger, the struggling”, assures Michel Barnier, evoking the importance of “entry to public service”, “safety” and immigration control. Responding to Gabriel Attal, he assured that the school would also remain “the priority”.
Michel Barnier also showed his desire to “act greater than discuss” and to “inform the reality” about “monetary and ecological debt” and promised “adjustments and ruptures”. And he concluded: “Let's get to work!”
ALSO READ Budget, debt, deficits… Michel Barnier’s roadmap to MatignonMichel Barnier will now have the tough activity of forming a authorities that may survive a parliamentary censure, whereas the left has already introduced its place. The far proper, for its half, has needed to be extra average. The National Rally has, actually, stated that it might anticipate his normal coverage speech earlier than deciding on a potential censure.
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