Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman was the guest of “Political Questions”, Sunday January 23 on France Inter. Interviewed by Thomas Snégaroff, with Carine Bécard and Alexandra Bensaid (France Inter), in collaboration with Françoise Fressoz (The world) and Nathalie Saint-Cricq (France Télévisions), he paid tribute to Brigadier Alexandre Martin, a French soldier who was killed on Saturday January 22 in Mali in a mortar attack on the military camp of Operation Barkhane in Gao.
“This is terrible news and I obviously want to have a word for him. For Brigadier Alexandre Martin, obviously a word of solidarity with his family, with his brothers in arms, he began. We are committed in Mali to fight once morest terrorism. And to fight once morest terrorism on the spot is also to protect the French at home in France, because terrorist projects which take place on our territory have sometimes been prepared, organized from abroad. »
Gabriel Attal then returned to the increase in energy prices and defended the government’s choices. “On gas, on electricity, on petrol, [les] inflation allowances, we were there like no other European country”, he said. To the question “will this be enough?” “, he has answered : “As the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said, we will always adapt. »
“Zemmour, recycling bin”
He also praised the “whatever it takes” policy pursued by the government at the time of the Covid-19 crisis. “It is precisely because we have made reforms since 2017 on our labor market, with work orders, with the reform of apprenticeship, with the reduction in production taxes. If we might do “no matter what”, it is also because we had put our public finances back in order”, he said.
Less than three months before the presidential election, Gabriel Attal attacked the opposition, while Emmanuel Macron has still not formalized his candidacy. “You have Marine Le Pen which is the original product. You have the Pécresse-Ciotti tandem which is a bit of a copycat. And then you have Zemmour, which is the recycling bin, which collects a little bit of everyone”, he estimated.
Finally, Gabriel Attal insisted on specifying at the end of the program that“there will be no[it] no increase in registration fees” in universities. The spokesperson was reacting to the concerns caused by the comments of Emmanuel Macron on Thursday January 13 regarding his vision of higher education.
