Gabriel Attal was in 2018 the rapporteur of the law that established Parcoursup. His brief stint as Education Minister in 2023 was marked more by his fight against the wearing of the abaya than by his desire to reduce the number of unreplaced absent teachers.
Both men relied on Emmanuel Macron and took part in his action. They now accuse each other of being Macronist.
The mayor of Le Havre, Horizons candidate, keeps falling month after month in voting intentions. Gabriel Attal is even further behind in the polls.
Seeing it as a way to differentiate themselves from the Horizons candidate, Attal's camp joined the criticism.
His security proposals, notably after the scenes of chaos on October 17 — mobilization of the army, use of drones, facial recognition and suspension of social networks — have been singled out for being closer to those of the far right than to the progressivism he claims.
This is not the first time the Horizons candidate for the 2027 presidential election seems disconnected from what the country is experiencing. Rather than reacting to what is happening, he made a choice he stands by: moving at his own pace.
Édouard Philippe declared in the weekly, then on TF1:"Which in no way minimizes certain superb successes of republican integration!".