The Minister Delegate will have to defend the finance bill in Parliament while the executive threatens to go into force. And mark its territory in the face of the omnipresent Bruno Le Maire.
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Ministry agents smiled. When he arrived in Bercy, Gabriel Attal broadcast on the intranet a video of him walking in a decided step in the courtyard of the building, face camera, saying his pride and his joy of being there. A campaign clip-style recording, sincere but not so much in the house pass-mural of the house. Bercy has his codes, his symbols not to ignore. Like this famous Empire office reserved for the Minister for the Budget on the Fifth Staff of the “Fortress”, a vestige of the blessed era of the rue de Rivoli and where, according to legend, Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès signs the code civil. As in his previous posts, Gabriel Attal wanted to replace him with that of his father, who died in 2015. He was quickly dissuaded. “It would be to cut centuries of history,” we warned it. Careful, he kept the furniture, and placed the family furniture, more modest, against the window. By leaning, we see below the hoverboard that he sometimes uses to go see his advisers at the end of the long corridor of the Hôtel des Ministers. “It relaxes me,” he said.
Having been the youngest minister under the V e Republic, it makes you want to do well. At 33, Gabriel Attal, who is preparing to defend his first budget in the hemicycle, knows: Bercy is a great launch ramp, the biggest have passed there. He also fought to obtain this position, also coveted by Clément Beaune, a former “techno” from the budget. The former student of the Alsatian school has fooled the sheets prepared by his cabinet all summer to get to the level. And for heritage days, he came two whole days to welcome the “thousands of visitors” who came to see the austere gray building. It must be said that a good third of onlookers were agents of the network who came to see the parent company. The former government spokesperson (from 2020 to 2022) that he wants to “invest in social dialogue” of a ministry which has, more than all the others, carved out in its workforce for twenty years, to show the Example.
At the dawn of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, the stake for him is not only to be accepted by this administration which is said to be more powerful than passing policies. It is also to manage to exist alongside Bruno Le Maire, a tutelary figure of the premises, which never lacks an opportunity to recall its longevity as Minister of the Economy – since 2017. The pair formed by Gabriel Attal and Jean -Michel Blanquer à l’Éducation (2018-2020) had not worked. Will the young man in a hurry manage to impose his mark, in the shade of the one he calls “Bruno”, and whose “reassuring continuity” he praised when the powers? The former primary candidate of the right in 2016 excels in the art of being omnipresent without ever formally deviating from the collective game.
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