2024-01-10 12:43:18
A subject “never” mentioned. The President of the Senate (LR) Gérard Larcher, assured this Wednesday morning on TF 1 that the post of Prime Minister, now occupied by Gabriel Attal, was not offered to him by Emmanuel Macron. Neither in recent days, nor before.
“The President of the Republic has never extended his hand. We have institutional relations, frank relations, rather friendly, but basically, he is him, and I am me,” he declares, ensuring that he is “fully in (his) role in the Senate” .
With Gabriel Attal, “we don’t have the same profile, we don’t have the same path,” says the senator, suggesting, among other things, that he is much older. The President of the Senate is 74 years old, forty years older than the new Prime Minister, the youngest of the Fifth Republic.
A “tribute to Élisabeth Borne”
Evoking the housing crisis, decentralization but also the crisis in the health sector in France, Gérard Larcher calls on Gabriel Attal to “meet the expectations of the French which are essential”. In passing, he “really and sincerely wishes the new Prime Minister all the best.” »
The President of the Senate says he has already had a telephone exchange with the head of government on Tuesday evening. “He told me about the deadlines for putting together his government,” which should be announced at the “end of the week.” We’ll see each other then,” he adds.
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Gérard Larcher pays, in passing, “tribute to Élisabeth Borne” who did not have “the easy task” without a majority in the National Assembly. “She nevertheless carried out two major reforms,” he underlines, citing those on pensions and that on immigration. “I only have one criticism to make of her, which is that she did not take into account the work of parliament, and in particular of the Senate, in the budget” with the use of 49.3.
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