Another victory for Gabriel Attal. The 33-year-old young minister confirmed the advance obtained in the first round to be elected again, Sunday June 19, deputy of the 10e constituency of Hauts-de-Seine. In total, it counts 62.8 % votes, and is thus ahead of her opponent from Nupes, Cécile Soubelet, eliminated with 37,2 % votes cast.
In this constituency, where President Emmanuel Macron won 38.8% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election (and nearly 82% of the votes in the second), the minister delegate, outgoing deputy, was not in difficulty. In 2017, Mr. Attal was elected with 61% votes in the second round.
Despite his young age, Mr. Attal has an already full political career. A former socialist activist convinced by Ségolène Royal in 2007, he began his political career in 2011 – at the age of 22 – when he campaigned for François Hollande as an assistant to Marisol Touraine. After the victory of the former first secretary of the Socialist Party in the presidential election, he joined the cabinet of Mme Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, as parliamentary attaché.
A meteoric rise within Macronie
Elected deputy in this same constituency of Hauts-de-Seine in the spring of 2017, he showed himself to be more and more comfortable on television sets, until obtaining the post of spokesperson for La République en Marche, in 2018. He then becomes the outspoken maverick of the presidential majority. He evokes the “greviculture” students and striking railway workers in 2018 or, more recently, denounces the « guillotine fiscale » by Jean-Luc Melenchon.
A true personality of Macronie, he was promoted to Bercy as Minister of Public Accounts, a position traditionally assigned to the young wolves of the government. It was notably occupied by Laurent Fabius, Nicolas Sarkozy or even Valérie Pécresse, ambitious people with varying fortunes. His comfortable victory obtained on Sunday will allow him to keep his position in the government and thus continue on his trajectory.
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