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The lectern and microphones had been installed in the Matignon courtyard for his speech reviewing the results of the European elections on Sunday evening. They will be put away without having been used, symbols of a nightmare evening where nothing went as planned for the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, Gabriel Attal is at the Elysée, speechless at the announcement of a dissolution of which he was unaware of the preparation. Like many, he didn’t want it. And like many, he didn’t want to believe it and was preparing to take the European vote. We cannot blame him for not being in phase with his troops. But the result is there, as unstoppable as that of the elections: the whistle is cut, just like the new lease of life that he has been trying to embody for five months. Reason or chaos, once again tells the French the President by summoning them back to the polls, and the Prime Minister to make up his mind: for him, it is an almost assured knockout. “It is better to write history than suffer it,” Macron explained in substance to justify his poker move. But the adage does not apply to Gabriel Attal, who suffered while he imagined writing another story: that of his resignation, to absorb the blow, followed by his re-appointment, to puff out his chest.
The anti-Bardella weapon of Macronie fizzled and here is the youngest tenant of Matignon very strongly threatened with also being one of the most ephemeral. Everything is definitely going very quickly with this young man in a hurry. At the moment when he is going to reduce the rights of the unemployed (if the decree survives this political sequence), it is bad luck. Late Monday afternoon, the microphones had still not come out at Matignon, where his silence contrasted with his omnipresence during the European campaign. For once, we can’t accuse him of cutting Valérie Hayer off.
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