{"id":290310,"date":"2024-01-09T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/01\/09\/gabriel-attal-primo-ministro-francia\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:42:07","slug":"france-changes-premier-attal-succeeds-borne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/01\/09\/france-changes-premier-attal-succeeds-borne\/","title":{"rendered":"France changes premier: Attal succeeds Borne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – New year, new government in France: After\u00a0yesterday’s (January 8) resignation of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne<\/strong>, President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> appointed the new head of government, former Education Minister Gabriel Attal<\/strong>, this morning.\u00a0In the past days, it was obvious that there would be this changing of the guard, considering the President’s twofold attempt to give his second presidential term a new impetus on the domestic policy front and to push his party (and the entire liberal Renew Europe coalition) ahead in the early June European Parliament elections.<\/p>\n

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The new French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal (credits: Joel Saget \/ Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Attal served in the ranks of the Socialist Party early in his political career before following President Macron to his Renaissance Party. The 34-year-old politician has already held several prominent political roles<\/strong>, including spokesman for the government led by Jean Castex<\/strong> (2020-2022) and minister of Public Accounts (2022-2023) and of Education (from July 2023) in the Borne government. With today’s nomination, he becomes the youngest prime minister of the Fifth Republic<\/strong>. The new premier takes office after President Macron accepted Borne’s resignation yesterday evening: an announcement that was not particularly surprising since the cabinet reshuffle option has been in the cards for weeks, at least since\u00a0the passing of the immigration law. “Her work in the service of our nation has been exemplary every day she carried out our project with the courage, commitment, and determination of the women of state<\/strong>,” Macron said<\/a> of the resigning prime minister.<\/p>\n

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Former French prime minister, \u00c9lisabeth Borne, at the European Parliament’s plenary session (Nov. 22, 2022)<\/p>\n

“I think Borne did a positive and extremely complex job because she\u00a0carried out two important and difficult reforms<\/strong>, one on pensions and the other on immigration law,” \u00a0the Secretary General of the European Democratic Party (EDP) and Renew Europe MEP, Sandro Gozi <\/strong>told\u00a0Eunews<\/em> speaking of “the end of a phase, I understand the decision of president” Macron: “To launch a new phase you need a new government team.” According to Gozi, “it is good to do it in January”<\/strong> and not wait\u00a0for the outcome of the European elections or the Olympic Games in the summer “because it is now that the new political phase begins.” Speaking\u00a0of the new government ready to take office, Gozi hopes it will give “the boost for the remaining half of the presidential term” and “an impetus to the election campaign”<\/strong> for the renewal of the EU Parliament in June. “European elections are very important for Macron, the most pro-European leader in Europe,” the EDP secretary general confirmed.<\/p>\n

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From left: former French prime minister, \u00c9lisabeth Borne, and her successor, Gabriel Attal (credits: Joel Saget \/ Afp)<\/p>\n

According to French law, the prime minister has a coordinating role in government action<\/strong>, while the political direction is the prerogative of the president of the Republic. After Borne’s resignation, the leftist La France Insoumise party demanded that the new prime minister submit to a vote of confidence by the National Assembly, even if this is not a mandatory step in France. Should there be no vote of confidence,\u00a0Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon<\/strong>‘s party threatened to file a motion of censure, which requires the signature of one-tenth of the deputies (58). The task of the new Prime Minister Attal will be to achieve President Macron’s goal of “industrial, economic, European and civic<\/strong>\u00a0rearmament” ahead of June’s European elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The changing of the guard in Paris also determined by pressure from the President. Secretary General of the European Democratic Party and Renew Europe MEP Sandro Gozi stresses the importance of “a new political phase also to give impetus to the election campaign” for the renewal of the EU Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":290297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26259,26260,26261,26262],"class_list":["post-290310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-elisabeth-borne-en","tag-emmanuel-macron-en","tag-francia-en","tag-gabriel-attal-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290310"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291004,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290310\/revisions\/291004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}