The Prime Minister returned to the composition of his new government team and the projects for the coming months.
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An interview following the announcement of the reshuffle. For around fifty minutes, Gabriel Attal answered Caroline Roux’s questions in the show “L’Evénement” on France 2. The Prime Minister returned to the composition of his new government team. Housing, education, agriculture… He also mentioned the major issues on which he wanted to move forward in the coming months. Here is what to remember from the head of government’s statements.
Gabriel Attal recognizes “unease” over the controversies surrounding Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
The Prime Minister first explained the departure of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra from the Ministry of National Education, at the heart of several controversies since his appointment in early January. “We saw that there was a disturbance, a discomfort, she explained it, she apologized”recognized Gabriel Attal. “What matters most to me (…) is that we can move forward for school and therefore the conditions to be able to move forward for school were no longer met immediately.”he added to justify the replacement of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra by Nicole Belloubet at the Ministry of National Education.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, however, retains her portfolio at the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic Games. On these issues, Gabriel Attal underlined his “total commitment which is welcomed by all the stakeholders” of the sporting world.
François Bayrou remains “of course” an ally of the majority
The head of government also minimized the crisis opened within the majority by the president of MoDem, François Bayrou, who refused to enter the government. Gabriel Attal mentioned a simple “debate” Or “disagreement on part of the line followed” but not one “incident”. Asked whether the mayor of Pau remained a reliable partner of the majority, the Prime Minister replied: “of course he said it himself”.
“The best social policy is work”, according to Gabriel Attal
“The best social policy, the one that really gets out of poverty, is work”, insisted the Prime Minister. To achieve full employment by the end of the five-year term, the head of government notably pleaded for “better support” beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA), who will have to work 15 hours per week. The device, tested in 18 territories, will be “generalized” in all departments.
The Prime Minister also once again confirmed his desire to “desmicardize” France. “I would like us to move forward with the universal time savings account”he also promised.
The Prime Minister refuses to “oppose ecology and farmers”
“I don’t consider that I put out the fire.” declared Gabriel Attal, regarding the agricultural crisis, for which the government has released 400 million euros. “JI have made commitments and I am perfectly aware that I will be judged on paper by our farmers”he continued.
Asked about the announcement of the “pause” of the Ecophyto plan to reduce pesticides, the Prime Minister said he did not accept “that we oppose ecology and farmers”. “He has never been so much money on the ecological transition”, he assured.
“A clash of knowledge” at school
“I think there is nothing more important than school, it is after all the life insurance of our Republic”, launched the former Minister of National Education. Faced with the observation that “the level of our students has dropped”Gabriel Attal pleaded for “a clash of knowledge”which will notably involve the establishment, at the start of the next school year, of level groups in mathematics and French in middle school.
The Prime Minister also defended the choice of repeating a year will once again be in the hands of the teaching team and no longer the parents. He estimates that “no one better than an educational team, than a teacher” can not “know if a child has the level to move on to the next class or not”.
The head of government once again affirmed that the use of screens among young people represents “a health and educational disaster”. “The President of the Republic is committed to ensuring that, in the spring, we will be able to have both a form of guide to good practiceses for families and decisions on the use of screens in National Education”, he specifies.
The housing crisis among the government’s “priorities”
In addition to youth and the situation of farmers, Gabriel Attal estimated that the housing crisis constitutes the third “priority” which will guide the first 100 days of his appointment. “Before the end of the month, we will identify 30 areas in France in which we want housing very quickly”he assured. “The objective is to have 30,000 within three years, in these territories,” he recalled.
The head of government also reaffirmed his desire to “give mayors the power to allocate social housing”. “Nurses, teachers, police officers, all these civil servants who are committed to others, to the country, to the general interest, who do not necessarily earn much, they must be given priority over social housing “, he judges.
Gabriel Attal “assumes” to work with “everyone” in the National Assembly
The Prime Minister finally “assume[é]“ to work “with everyone” in the National Assembly, including groups to which it is “radically opposed”the National Rally and La France insoumise.
Gabriel Attal “assumes” to work with “everyone” in the Assembly, including the RN
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Gabriel Attal was criticized on the left after declaring to the daily The world that “the republican arc is the hemicycle” of the Assembly, where 88 deputies from the National Rally sit. “My line has always been to say that I have to listen to everyone”he defends. “DBehind these parliamentarians (…) there are millions of French people who voted” And “It’s not respecting them to say that ‘because you are from rebellious France or because you are from the National Rally, we are not going to listen'”, according to the Prime Minister.