2024-04-18 06:47:33
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, and the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, on the occasion of the tribute to Maryse Conde, at the National Library of France (BNF), in Paris, April 15, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / VIA REUTERS
L’” authority “the “secularism” and the “role of the state” will be on the menu for a trip by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, to Essonne and an interview on BFM-TV, Thursday April 18, to mark his first hundred days at Matignon. The head of government, who was appointed by Emmanuel Macron on January 9, must go to Viry-Châtillon – a town recently marked by the death of Shemseddine, 15, beaten to death near his college –, where he will deliver a speech on “authority at the heart of the Republic”.
Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers “It could have been mine”: in Viry-Châtillon, parents and children walk together to pay tribute to Shemseddine
Add to your selections
“Authority must apply everywhere, for everyone”, declared government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot on Wednesday, announcing this trip. The Prime Minister must “detail a very precise action plan on this issue which is expected of all, in the continuity of our action since 2017”she added.
Mr. Attal should notably announce the launch of a broad consultation on the violence of minors, desired by Emmanuel Macron. “The emergence of ultraviolence in everyday life, among increasingly young citizens, requires long-term work that involves all stakeholders”notably declared the Head of State during the council of ministers on Wednesday, according to a participant who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Four young men, three minors and one adult, were indicted for murder after the death, at the beginning of April, of Shemseddine, beaten near his college for a dispute linked to the sister of two of them . They were all placed in pre-trial detention. His trip to Viry-Châtillon will also include a judicial component and another on “the role of school”particularly with the question of boarding schools, AFP learned from a government source.
Crises
Between the farmers’ movement, the budgetary slippage, the tremors in the presidential camp after the adoption of the “immigration” law and the constant threat of a motion of censure in the National Assembly, the crises marked the first steps of Mr. Attal in Matignon.
But, in addition to authority and education, subjects which had been at the center of his general policy declaration to the Assembly at the end of January and at the start of his mandate, the Prime Minister also intends to focus on the theme of work with a new expected reform of unemployment insurance to toughen the conditions despite the reservations of his camp. In particular, it proposes reducing the duration of compensation or increasing the working time necessary to benefit from compensation in order to“further encourage the resumption of employment”.
The head of government wishes to defend the “working middle class” the common thread of his time at Matignon. “There is a social movement in the country which has no spokesperson, which does not say its name, which is not described as such. It’s the middle class that works. And who feels that she has all the duties, when others sometimes have all the rights?he explained at the beginning of April to Monde.
Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The “hundred days” of Gabriel Attal in Matignon, against contrary winds
Add to your selections
The Prime Minister will also have to tackle public finances, whose revenues are lower than expected, according to the executive. While this financial situation has caused tensions in the presidential camp – notably between Mr. Macron and his Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire –, and before a perilous budgetary autumn looms in Parliament for Mr. Attal, the government must find 10 billion euros in additional savings for the year 2024. Then, in 2025, the government wants to make another 20 billion in savings, compared to 12 initially, with the objective of reaching below 3% of the product gross domestic in 2027.
Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The government’s avenues for achieving 20 billion euros in savings in 2025
Add to your selections
In an opinion made public on Wednesday, the High Council of Public Finances on the stability plan for the period 2024 to 2027 nevertheless estimated that the budgetary trajectory of the executive lacked “credibility” and of ” consistency “. In this tense budgetary and political context for Emmanuel Macron, his next few weeks in Matignon will also be marked by the European election campaign, where the list of the presidential camp led by Valérie Hayer is in difficulty compared to that of the National Rally led by Jordan Bardella who prances at the top of the polls.
Reuse this content
#Authority #role #State #menu #Gabriel #Attals #trip #Essonne #death #Shemseddine