Gabriel Attali’s “One Hundred Days” at the matinee, in the contrary winds

Gabriel Atal is enjoying himself, drunk on ovations 5000 kilometers from Matignon and his crises. From Quebec, a few inches from the “throne”. – The furniture component platform and chair of the chair of the National Assembly Belle Province-, the Prime Minister has just closed, on Thursday, April 11, his speech with the local deputies. Forty years after the words of Laurent Fabius, V^e The Republic – he is 35 years old – raises, from the blue room, secularism “The Heart of Our Identity” The common that must be protected, the French language that must be protected and the youth “adventurer” for which we must fight. “We will win with youth, always with youth! »He says he borrows the accents of the head of state.

Quebec’s elected officials wholeheartedly welcome the head of the French government, who in less than thirty minutes seeks to strengthen ties, extended time between the two “Cousins” that “Intertwined Identities”According to the statement of the President of the Assembly, Natalie Roy. “I know very well that this applause is for France”In February 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy confessed before the same assembly.

But this Thursday, Gabriel Atal has to believe in his own success. A few hours later, at a dinner hosted by his Quebec counterpart, François Legault, he confided that he was “personal touch” With the welcome of Canada, Quebec and Ottawa, where he was solemnly received as President of the Republic. “You probably don’t follow the French news closely, but I don’t have such a welcome in the National Assembly [en France] “, he jokes, a glass of Quebec ice in hand.

“See you in six months”

In Paris, the Prime Minister is sailing against the wind. At the dawn of a hundred days at the helm of the executive, the uncontrolled state of public finances concerns political leaders and deprives them of room for maneuver. “It Will End Badly”Warning in the interview Sunday newspaper, on April 14, President of the Senate (Les Républicains, LR) Gérard Larchet; The announced reforms of the unemployment insurance and the status of civil servants are under pressure; And week after week, the National Rally (RN) is confirming its lead in the polls, ahead of the June 9 European elections, dangerously distancing the list from the presidential camp. The bad dynamics are such that the socialist left, led by Raphael Glucksmann, is starting to dream of winning second place in this decisive election of the Macronist DNA, imagining that it will overtake the list led by the Renaissance candidate, Valéry Haier.