Freed, “the go-getter” Attal leaves Matignon full of ambition – Libération

The leader of the Renaissance deputies is eyeing the presidency of the Macronist party and is playing the free electron card against his rival Gérald Darmanin.

It is a lease full of paradoxes that is coming to an end for Gabriel Attal. A brief stint of seven months and three weeks at Matignon, including fifty-one days spent dealing with current affairs, a record notice period under the Fifth Republic. In January, when he succeeded Elisabeth Borne, we did not see the young Minister of Education coming, hiding behind a shortlist other Prime Ministerial candidates serving as decoys. But at the end of this summer, the head of the resigning government was still refusing to leave. The President of the Republic had chosen, from his ranks, a pure product of Macronism who never missed an opportunity to display his loyalty. And it is a freedman who is preparing to leave 57, rue de Varenne. Dazed on the evening of June 9, Gabriel Attal was furious when he understood that the dissolution amounted to putting an end to his functions. “Eight months is short, it’s too short,” he admits. Alongside Michel Barnier, on the steps on Wednesday, he does not hide “a frustration” and warns that “freedom [l’]will animate» in the future. Re-elected deputy of Hauts-de-Seine, the president of the group Together for the Republic (EPR) has now “looking forward to fully entering his new costume”, they say in his entourage. “He’s a go-getter,” eager to write the sequel