2023-12-17 04:56:00
It will have been his autumn. Upon his arrival in July at the Ministry of Education, Gabriel Attal will have skillfully sequenced it, regularly making strong announcements. It paid off. In the opinion he printed. This week, he took the lead in the monthly barometer of political figures Ipsos-Point, dethroning Édouard Philippe who had occupied it since his departure from Matignon. In Macronie, which went through a more than tough quarter, it has become a value for the future. “Gabriel Attal will have been a breath of fresh air this fall”, assures Robin Reda, Renaissance deputy for Essonne. Even the Republicans have awarded him many laurels. “He has done flawlessly since he joined Education,” greets Éric Ciotti, their boss, also sensitive to the fact that the minister is choosing the Alpes-Maritimes, his stronghold, among the communities which will experiment with wearing the uniform from September, for two years. Soon, Gabriel Attal will detail the modalities of this test.
“Scaffold or springboard”
The months to come, he designed them in the same way. The new projects are numerous and ready. In January, the tenant of Rue de Grenelle will present its reform of moral and civic education, then in February, that of artistic education. This winter, an authority plan, a review of teacher training, the presentation of structures designed to accommodate radicalized students, promised after the Arras attack… Gabriel Attal wants to continue to move quickly and take advantage of the state of grace that he knows. In his game, he has two assets. For many of his projects, he does not need to go through the law, whereas in the Assembly the relative majority makes everything complicated for the executive. By making education a “reserved domain”, the Élysée allows the thirty-year-old to bypass the Matignon box. At the moment, he is therefore negotiating with the president the creation of positions to support the establishment of level groups in French and maths at the college, as he announced.
For Pap Ndiaye’s successor, can everything continue as it started? “We have always presented this ministry more as a scaffold than as a springboard, assure Gabriel Attal. This is what I was most alerted to before my arrival. I may face blockages, strikes. If this were to be the case, the important thing is to always be able to explain to the French why we need to put this or that measure in place. » “Its issue is what the parents will say in two years”, estimates a close friend of the head of state. “His approach is interesting to people; afterwards, it has to come into reality, which is not so simple, warned François Bayrou on France 5 on Thursday. Having been Minister of Education for almost five years, I have a little idea of this subject. » At the start of the school year, Gabriel Attal proposed a pact to teachers, where in exchange for new missions they would obtain additional remuneration. For the moment, the measure has only had limited success. In his book published this fall, A French story, Alain Juppé reported this anecdote, dating back to the time when he was Minister of the Budget, about his colleague then in charge of National Education: “René Monory energetically demanded a strong increase in teachers’ salaries but agreed, in return, to ask them to be more present with students. I appreciated this courageous… and rare step. Without a future, alas. »
It was in 1986. Gabriel Attal was born three years later. Today, he is 34 years old and now some imagine him as the heir of Macronism, while Jordan Bardella also embodies a generational leap. Close to Bruno Le Maire and Jean Castex, the Minister of Education pacified his relations with Édouard Philippe in the spring and took care this fall to never enter into competition with Gérald Darmanin. Whatever its place, how could it not be essential in 2027?
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