Gabriel Attal will propose “meetings” to other political groups for “an action pact”

After Emmanuel Macron accepted his resignation, the leader of the Macronist deputies also assured on TF1 on Tuesday evening that he “would not be” the next Prime Minister.

The French “expect us to act beyond divisions”, he hammered. Gabriel Attal, the resigning Prime Minister and leader of Macronist deputies, stated on Tuesday July 16 that he would propose “meetings” to other political groups for “move towards (an) action pact” with a view to forming a new government.

But he assured that he would not “wouldn’t be” the next Prime Minister. “I don’t aspire“to be,” explained the tenant of Matignon on TF1.

Emmanuel Macron accepted on Tuesday the resignation of Gabriel Attal and all the ministers, who are now taking over “the handling of current affairs until the appointment of a new government”announced the Elysée.

“In order for this period to end as quickly as possible, it is up to the republican forces to work together to build a rally around projects and actions in the service of French women and men,” affirmed the presidency of the Republic. “We work”, Gabriel Attal detailed in this regard, “and in the coming days, we will be led to take a political initiative, to make proposals for an action pact for the French, with substance, proposals for measures, proposals for compromise too.”

“Discussions begin” And “I will propose, with the deputies of Ensemble pour la République, meetings with the other political groups (…) with the exception of the extremes, to move towards this action pact for the French people”, said Gabriel Attal, elected president of the Macronist group in the National Assembly on Saturday.

While the president of the Republican Right group Laurent Wauquiez proposed a “legislative pact” without participation in the government, viewed favorably by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, Gabriel Attal reiterated that he wished “working with people from the Republican right” as much as with “people from the social democratic left.” “The French are waiting for us to act by going beyond divisions.”

Gabriel Attal, re-elected MP for Hauts-de-Seine on 7 July, also specified that he would now be paid by Parliament as an MP. However, ministers who are not MPs “will keep their ministerial remuneration”Matignon said Tuesday evening.