Within the race for the Elysée, the hatchet is out between two former Prime Ministers. Strongly anticipated to be a candidate for the 2027 presidential election, Dominique de Villepin certainly estimated on Sunday that there was “nothing of Jacques Chirac in Gabriel Attal”, after the latter formalized his candidacy in a staging impressed by the previous president.
“If there’s one factor I can testify to, it’s that there’s nothing in Gabriel Attal of Jacques Chirac », declared on BFMTV the one who prided himself on having “recognized Chirac nicely” and having “accompanied him for a complete a part of his profession” – successively as secretary normal of the Elysée, minister of Overseas Affairs, minister of the Inside then Prime Minister between 1995 and 2007.
Villepin evasive about his personal candidacy
“Jacques Chirac has at all times been Jacques Chirac, Gabriel Attal should be taught to turn into Gabriel Attal,” added Dominique de Villepin, questioned concerning the comparability drawn between the 2 males’s candidacy declarations and conveniently highlighted by these near Gabriel Attal.
All the time evasive about his personal presidential ambitions, the eloquent septuagenarian as soon as once more appeared to wish to take his time: “We stay within the time of false begins of the electoral marketing campaign, everyone seems to be dashing to declare their candidacy (…) let’s let essentially the most keen ones move”, he defined, sarcastically about these “younger political leaders who wish to reduce their enamel and present how gifted they’re”.
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A sort out apparently nonetheless addressed to the younger boss of the Renaissance celebration, adopted by a extra direct criticism of sure “positions which typically shock (him), when (he) sees Gabriel Attal, even Édouard Philippe, utilizing all types of periphrases to elucidate that they’re the boys of rupture and alter”.
