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Gabriel Attal, at the Elysée, August 23, 2024.

Gabriel Attal by no means says the phrase taboo. The 2027 presidential election is, he swears, nonetheless too distant to occupy his thoughts. Evoking it, even with lip service, is, in his eyes, “premature”he mentioned. This Wednesday, October 30, when he spoke by phone with The Worldthe previous prime minister has simply hung a medal on his jacket to assert the succession to Emmanuel Macron. Here he’s alone on the path to run, on December 7, for the presidency of the Renaissance presidential social gathering. Elisabeth Borne, who was to face him, threw within the towel the day earlier than, accepting a comfort place on the head of the social gathering’s nationwide council.

Even the previous Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, his rival, admits victory by knockout. of the elected official of Vanves. Already on the entrance line within the National Assembly, the place he chairs the group of Macronist deputies, Gabriel Attal, 35, is taking up the social gathering, a possible conflict machine anticipated, in the end, to remodel right into a presidential steady.

“We needed an incarnation like there is in the other two blocs with Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the New Popular Front and with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella on the far right”applauds David Amiel, MP (Together for the Republic, EPR) from Paris.

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The thirty-year-old, who put his ft on his desk and claimed to have “a story to write with the French” In The Point dated September 19, attempt to not sin by means of conceitedness. If Edouard Philippe, the president of the Horizons social gathering like Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon locations himself on the beginning line for the race to the Elysée, he tempers: “Political life is long. Days are like months, and months are like years.”

A fame as a predator

Everything may change, he is aware of it. Barely 4 months in the past, the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 broke his wings whereas he occupied Matignon. Disgusted by the choice of the Head of State, Gabriel Attal gave up for a number of hours. To the purpose of occupied with leaving politics? “In those moments, a lot of things go through your mind. It’s human”he admits. After main the legislative battle, right here he’s once more within the saddle. “I’m trying to move forward. To move forward »he said, convinced of being able to save the centrist group from a death predicted by the head of state’s adversaries. “I believe in the revival of our political family”he says.

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