Attal Government Controversies and Policy Decisions: Latest Updates and News

2024-01-14 20:30:52

21:27

Amélie Oudéa-Castera’s eldest son would have spent six months in the public sector before leaving for the private sector

In the columns of Libération, the former teacher of Amélie Oudéa-Castera’s eldest son claims that the current Minister of Education would have withdrawn her child from the public because this school would have refused to move him to the middle section, in view of of his age, while insisting on the fact that there has “never been a replacement problem at Littré”.

“The minister completely denies” this evening these comments according to those around her, and “maintains her statement from Friday” reporting “replacement and organizational problems”.

Libération points out that the minister’s eldest child therefore only stayed six months in public school, in the first year of kindergarten. His other children would then have been educated in the same private school so as not to separate them.

19:37

The socialist parliamentarians of Calvados regret not having been warned of Gabriel Attal’s visit to Caen

Arthur Delaporte and Corinne Féret would have liked to be informed of Gabriel Attal’s visit to Caen this Sunday.

In a press release, the MP and the PS senator from Calvados regret that “no opposition parliamentarian, deputy or senator, was warned of this visit when all the deputies of the presidential majority were present, even though the tradition is that of the republican welcome of members of the government by all parliamentarians.”

“While the Prime Minister refuses to seek the vote of confidence from the National Assembly, this lack of courtesy and respect for republican customs can only send a signal of deep distrust towards the parliament and more broadly our fellow citizens”, judge the two elected officials.

19:07

Gérald Darmanin believes that a “cycle at the Ministry of the Interior will be reached” after the Olympics

Is Gérald Darmanin already planning to leave Place Beauvau? In an article published by Le Figaro, the Minister of the Interior, indestructible since 2017, affirms that “his mission is to succeed in the Olympic Games. “After the Olympic Games, a cycle at the Ministry of the Interior will be reached… “, he judges.

“I would like to see this speech in its entirety because there is always a context,” reacts Prisca Thévenot on BFMTV, who seems disconcerted. “I would like to remind you that Gérald Darmanin is a full member of this government.”

18:55

Emmanuel Macron will hold a press conference Tuesday at 8:15 p.m.

The outlines of the speech promised by Emmanuel Macron for next week are becoming clearer. The Elysée announces that the President of the Republic will hold a press conference on Tuesday at 8:15 p.m.

This press conference, which will be followed on BFMTV, will also be broadcast on TF1, France 2 and the news channels. “It is part of the meeting with the nation that began with the wishes of December 31 and which continued with the appointment of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government,” underlines the Elysée.

More information here.

18:44

For Prisca Thévenot, Rachida Dati wants, like her, to “serve her country”

The government spokesperson defends the appointment of Rachida Dati to the Ministry of Culture while she defined Emmanuel Macron’s party as a movement bringing together “right-wing traitors and left-wing traitors”.

“We are in a process of expansion and going beyond,” underlines Prisca Thévenot. “Is Rachida Dati part of these republican and democratic forces that the country needs? Yes.” Does she have anything in common with Rachida Dati? “Yes, that of wanting to serve my country.”

18:35

“Yes, there are a certain number of hours that are not replaced”: Prisca Thévenot returns to Oudéa-Castéra’s comments

Prisca Thévenot is invited on BFMTV to react to the words of the Minister of National Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who said she sent her children to private school out of “frustration” at seeing “a lot of hours not replaced”.

“Stop futile controversies,” calls the government spokesperson. “Yes, there are a certain number of hours, 15 million hours, which are not replaced,” she adds.

She underlines that the minister will bring together “bilaterally between Monday and Tuesday all the trade union organizations to work on this subject, move forward and get down to business.”

18:27

Too many ministerial trips? Prisca Thévenot evokes “vain and sterile” controversies

Asked to know if the numerous trips by ministers in recent days are not simple communication stunts, Prisca Thévenot, government spokesperson, guest on BFMTV, brushes aside this criticism by evoking controversies that are “a little sterile and vain”.

“I spent a lot of time on the sets,” recalls Prisca Thévenot. “When the ministers, or the Prime Minister, or even the President of the Republic do not travel, we blame him for not traveling. And then when we travel, we move too much.”

18:04

Rachida Dati “measured the depth of time” at the Château de Fontainebleau

On her X account, the new Minister of Culture published a photo of her morning visit to the Château de Fontainebleau, “a monument which broke attendance records last year”.

“What a joy to measure the depth of time in this house so emblematic of the history of France!”, she enthuses.

16:41

The Mayor and Béchu will go to the North tomorrow, Darmanin will be in Seine-Saint-Denis

They are experienced in the exercise but it will nonetheless be their first trip since the appointment of Gabriel Attal to Matignon. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who has taken charge of energy, will go tomorrow to the Gravelines nuclear power plant (North).

He will continue with a visit to the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Grande-Synthe with the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu. Bruno Le Maire announced today that the group planned to invest 1.8 billion euros in the decarbonization of this site, with the State providing aid which could amount to up to 850 million euros. euros.

Interior Minister Géral Darmanin, who was already in Val-d’Oise with Gabriel Attal on Wednesday, will be in Seine-Saint-Denis tomorrow morning. He will have the opportunity to visit the Olympic village which will welcome the athletes during the Paris Olympics.

16:24

Stéphane Stayed in Germany before a trip to Poland tomorrow

After a first trip to kyiv yesterday, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné is today in Germany to meet his counterpart Annalena Baerbock. Both are due to hold a joint press conference in around ten minutes.

Stéphane Séjourné will continue his European tour tomorrow with a trip to Poland to meet Minister Radolaw Sikorski.

13:27

“The president knows how to make his choices for himself”: Bergé brushes aside suspicions of Sarkozy’s influence on Macron

The Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men Aurore Bergé brushed aside on LCI-TF1 the accusations of Nicolas Sarkozy’s influence on the current Head of State concerning the composition of the new government, from which several close relatives come. of the former president.

“The President of the Republic knows how to make his choices for himself (…). He is President of the Republic so he knows what he has to do and who he has to choose and appoint to lead the policy that is his,” she assured.

“Those who have joined the government, whether Rachida Dati or Catherine Vautrin, that means that they have joined our project and that they support our majority,” she judged.

13:00

Raphaël Glucksmann denounces Emmanuel Macron’s “permanent publicity stunt” strategy

“Macron’s strategy is the permanent communication stunt. We will be in a perpetual situation of commenting on these communication stunts,” laments Raphaël Glucksmann, MEP and founder of the Place publique movement, on France Inter.

“We will not fight against the extreme right with communications,” says Raphaël Glucksmann. “We will not block the far right with a strategy of permanent ‘movement’.”

“I can clearly see that they want to set up the match between Attal and Bardella to once again reduce the French political debate between Emmanuel Macron and the far right,” he continues. “We will not let this happen. We’re fed up with this situation.”

12:50

Fabien Roussel asks Gabriel Attal for a guarantee that there will be a vote of confidence and no more recourse to 49.3.

“I hope that the Prime Minister, after his general policy speech, will submit it to the vote of the deputies,” declares Fabien Roussel on BFMTV. “We would like one small thing, Mr. Prime Minister, we would like to vote. Our right to vote has been taken away 23 times (…), 23 49.3.”

He thus asks Gabriel Attal to “guarantee one, that there will be a vote of confidence, two, that there will be no more 49.3.” An improbable hypothesis given the fact that the government only has a relative majority in the National Assembly.

“If there are no such commitments, of course we will vote for a motion of censure,” adds Fabien Roussel.

12:47

Rachida Dati: the boss of the CGT says she is “surprised that a person under indictment can be appointed minister”

Sophie Binet, the boss of the CGT, commented on the reshuffle on RTL/M6 this Sunday afternoon. She notably spoke of her “surprise” at the appointment of Rachida Dati to the post of Minister of Culture.

“I was surprised that a person under indictment could be appointed minister. Afterwards, she highlighted her ability to lead battles. She is expected to turn the corner.”

12:20

For Fabien Roussel, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is an “extremely weakened” minister

The national secretary of the PCF reacts on BFMTV to the controversy concerning the comments of the Minister of National Education. Friday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra explained that she had sent her children to private school because of her “frustration” at seeing “lots of hours which were not seriously replaced”.

For Fabien Roussel, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is an “extremely weakened” minister while saying “respect the choice of families who send their child to private school”.

“We don’t ask her what she does for her children, we ask her to take care of our children,” he says. “She has no words to say: ‘We are going to repair National Education, provide resources, hire teachers, ensure that there are no more unreplaced teachers.'”

12:15

Fabien Roussel: the Attal government, “it’s the return of the UMP, the Union for a privileged minority”

The national secretary of the PCF believes that the government of Gabriel Attal is “a class government” which marks “the return of the UMP, the Union for a privileged minority”.

These ministers are “mostly from the Sarkozy governments or who worked for him, and who will accelerate a policy which today serves a caste: the richest”, he believes.

More information here.

12:09

Fabien Roussel judges that Gabriel Attal “will end up making the French dizzy” with his travels

Asked about Gabriel Attal’s movements since his appointment as Prime Minister, Fabien Roussel believes that the head of government “will end up making the French dizzy” and that “politics is not reality TV”.

“I wouldn’t want him to wear them out by traveling like that,” adds the national secretary of the French Communist Party, guest of BFM Politique.

That said, he invites the French “to go see him with their pay slip, with their electricity bill, tell him that we must not increase electricity by 10% on February 1, tell him that we must increase wages.”

11:58

“There is no organized pandemic”: Gabriel Attal hugged by an unvaccinated caregiver

Gabriel Attal multiplies impromptu exchanges in Caen. The new Prime Minister was questioned by an employee of a private clinic on the question of working conditions in the health sector. An exchange quickly disrupted by a “conspiracy” testimony.

“For 18 months I was unable to exercise because I am part of the conspiracy staff. Today, we have the sword of Damocles (…) I refused the injection. Today, I will resume , but what can I expect from the government? Because they are not going to put another pandemic on our backs,” the passer-by asked the Prime Minister.

Destabilized, the new head of government assured that he could “talk about working conditions in hospitals and health”, but flatly refused the theory of an “organized pandemic”. The Prime Minister quickly cut the discussion short to speak with a farmer.

11:43

“Wait to see the decision of the Constitutional Council”: questioned on the immigration law, Gabriel Attal procrastinates

On this Caen market, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal was courteously addressed by a passerby opposed to the immigration law.

“It’s despicable to pass such a law (…) it’s inhumane, we need these people,” said the passer-by.

“I do not agree with you on the observation (…) Wait to see the decision of the Constitutional Council,” explained the new head of government.

11:37

Gabriel Attal traveling to a market in Caen

A new walkabout for the Prime Minister. Gabriel Attal is traveling this morning to a market in Caen in Calvados, he is meeting residents there and must address the issue of inflation.

10:28

Éric Zemmour recognizes that Gabriel Attal is “rather talented” but criticizes Macron’s lack of “coherence”

The Prime Minister finds unexpected admirers. This Sunday, Éric Zemmour (Reconquête) said rather laudatory words towards Gabriel Attal during his interview on Europe 1.

“He learns quickly, he is rather talented,” he said, admitting that he did not know him well beyond his media appearances.

The former 2022 presidential candidate looks with a more mixed eye at Gabriel Attal’s record at the head of the Ministry of Education, deploring many “announcements” and few actions, with the exception of ban on the Abaya.

Announcements that he did not wish to criticize, believing that they came from “(his) program”.

Éric Zemmour, however, was more critical of Emmanuel Macron’s policies and the composition of his government, deploring “changes to the left and the right”.

“(Emmanuel Macron) is chasing opinion (…) I don’t see any consistency in it.”

9:02

Jean-Louis Bourlanges regrets the weak representation of the MoDem in government

Invited on France Info this morning, MoDem deputy Jean-Louis Bourlanges commented on the new composition of the government, which he considers too Sarkozyste.

“The count is not there, it is not normal that we have 6 or 7 ministers of Sarkozy inspiration and only one MoDem minister” and “there is a gap between the appointment of Gabriel Attal and the composition of the government”.

6:50

Rennes, Bordeaux, Tours… Demonstrations for the withdrawal of the immigration law expected

Demonstrations for the withdrawal of the immigration law are expected in several cities in France this Sunday at the call of associations or unions. The firsts of the new government formed by Gabriel Attal.

In Bordeaux, Rennes or even in turn, gatherings are expected during the day.

Demonstrations organized ahead of the decision of the Constitutional Council, on January 25, supposed to rule on the regularity of the text.

6:45

Her appointment to the Ministry of Culture criticized: Rachida Dati sees it as “class contempt”

In an interview with Le Parisien, the newly appointed Minister of Culture Rachida Dati returned to the criticism she has been subjected to.

“I don’t care about the comments on my nomination, even if I sometimes also see class contempt in them,” she declared.

Find his full reaction here.

Rachida Dati, superstar of the reshuffle

6:30

The head of French diplomacy expected in Berlin today to advance Ukrainian issues

The head of French diplomacy, in kyiv yesterday where he promised that Ukraine “will remain France’s priority”, will travel to Germany today. Then and to Poland tomorrow. And this, to meet his counterparts and advance Ukrainian issues within European bodies.

Stéphane Séjourné will meet Annalena Baerbock at 4:00 p.m. local time and then return to Paris for meetings. He will then return to Warsaw to meet with Szymon Szynkowski at 6:30 p.m. local time the next day.

6:15

Stayed in Berlin, demonstrations against the immigration law… Another busy day for the government

Hello and welcome to this live broadcast devoted to political news and in particular to the beginnings of the Attal government.

After a day marked yesterday by the trip of Gabriel Attal and the Minister of Labor, Catherine Vautrin to the Dijon University Hospital to meet caregivers, the Prime Minister will be confronted today with demonstrations planned across France in favor of withdrawal of the immigration law.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné, will travel to Berlin.

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