Posted on 01/10/2024 5:04:38 AM PST by FarCenter
After a swift rise up the ranks, 34-year-old Gabriel Attal took the reins as France’s new prime minister on Tuesday. With a background steeped in privilege, the first openly gay head of government is expected to bring new energy to President Emmanuel Macron’s government, which has been weakened by months of protests over pension reform, the lack of a parliamentary majority and low approval ratings.
Macron is relying on Attal to rejuvenate his government, in part, with an appeal to a younger demographic of voters who have become disillusioned, notably ahead of crucial EU parliamentary elections in June.
Gabriel Attal’s most pressing task will be to ensure that Macron’s unpopular government is in position to outperform the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, who continues to gain ground on an anti-immigration, anti-Islam platform.
As elsewhere in Europe, France's far right has benefitted from a global cost-of-living crisis, immigration woes and simmering resentment towards a political class – and a president – seen as out of touch. Macron’s confidence rating among the public dropped another point in January to 27 percent, according to a monthly Elabe poll for “Les Echos” business newspaper.
The same day that Attal took office, a leading Macron ally warned that Europe risks becoming "ungovernable" as gains by far-right parties in EU elections threaten to weaken the fabric of European integration.
Confirming his choice of Attal in a post on X, Macron addressed the young outgoing education minister directly, saying he knows he can count on Attal’s “energy and commitment" to bring back the spirit of “excellence and audacity” from 2017, when the president first took office.
Under the French political system, the prime minister is the head of government, in charge of implementing policy and managing government ministers.
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>a leading Macron ally warned that Europe risks becoming “ungovernable”
In other words, they’ll vote for someone else in droves so we can’t cheat, and then our corruption will be exposed.
This is all Trump's doing, trying to bring about a new racist civil war to bring back the party of Lincoln and reimpose slavery all to subvert a perfectly functioning global system governed by the elite graduates of the world's finest academies who all know better than we do how to run the world.
(Attal’s “energy and commitment” to bring back the spirit of “excellence and audacity” from 2017, when the president first took office.)
The Audacity of Gay Hope
Just like Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
Maximilien Robespierre comes to mind, a scion of the privileged class that rose with suddenness to power in what were turbulent times, and eventually led to a movement that ended up eating itself.
Gabriel Attal seems overly ambitious and working for ends that do not bode well for France.
How is easy.
France’s Deep State installed him.
Uh, he had support of neil an bob? 😳
Musta checked all the right boxes! Was qualified and competent missed?
Yeah, that's right!
It isn't the tens of millions of military-age men from predominantly Third-World Muslim countries they've imported who "threaten" Europe's cohesion! It's the right-wingers!
Regards,
“far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, who continues to gain ground on an anti-immigration, anti-Islam platform.
As elsewhere in Europe, France’s far right has benefitted from a global cost-of-living crisis, immigration woes and simmering resentment towards a political class”
The so-called far-right is merely sensible. The article presents a far-left party as sensible instead.
I don’t really want to know.
Far Right is just Right.
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