in the countryside, Gabriel Attal strongly challenged by a passerby

The joys of the countryside. Traveling Monday to Perreux-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) to support the outgoing Renaissance deputy Mathieu Lefèvre, as part of the early legislative elections, Gabriel Attal was strongly questioned by a passerby. A symbol of the distrust and even rejection that Emmanuel Macron arouses in part of the population. “I’m going to shake your hand because you are good. But you’ll have to tell the president to keep his mouth shut.”the alpague in a very frank way this onlooker. “Candy…”immediately tries to temporize the head of government, embarrassed by the situation. “It’s a legislative election: we vote for the Prime Minister”replies Gabriel Attal, himself a candidate in 10^e Hauts-de-Seine constituency.

If the exchange could have stopped there, this citizen puts a coin back into the machine: “Understand me. You are good, you were even very good in National Education. For now, things are going well. But then the president is the one who is screwing us up. Good luck!” Sensing that his interlocutor is a centrist, Gabriel Attal takes the liberty of saying: “We are counting on you on June 30 (date of the first round of elections, Editor’s note).” “It’s to you that I say good luck”, concludes this Val-de-Marnais. Way of supporting Gabriel Attal in the executive couple formed since January 2024 with Emmanuel Macron, while the first has privately made known his disagreement with the second regarding the dissolution.

“Not deliver France to the extremes”

A little earlier, the mayor of Le Havre Édouard Philippe had explained on RMC and BFMTV that the RN vote expressed “anger”and one “rejection” of the President of the Republic and the government. In response to his predecessor, Gabriel Attal replied “spend our time in the field.” “There are concerns, anger, you would have to be above ground not to know it and not realize it.” And to add: “I also meet a lot of French people who are worried and who are angry and who above all do not want to hand France over to the extremes.”