Gabriel Attal calls for a “grand coalition” for the presidential election, open to a primary

Renaissance presidential candidate Gabriel Attal has Le Parisien in favor of a “grand coalition” bringing together the social-democratic left and the Republican right for the next presidential election, even if it means organizing a primary.

Noting that “no one”, in the political space between LFI and the RN, “is favorite or in a position to beat Marine Le Pen” in the second round at present, Gabriel Attal called for a “real and broad gathering”.

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We need “a candidate who embodies this grand coalition”

“The only thing that can allow us to win is a grand coalition bringing together voters from the social democratic left to the Republican right. Not “against” but “for” a vision: Europe, the competitiveness of our economy, the values ​​of the Republic and progressivism,” he continued in an interview with Le Parisien.

Emmanuel Macron's former prime minister is targeting more precisely "voters tempted by Raphaël Glucksmann to those of the Republican right." “I am speaking to them. Because there are voters, from the left as well as the right, who would like another choice than a candidate who will have no chance of being in the second round,” he insisted. In the end, we need “a candidate who embodies this grand coalition and this broad political space,” he added.

Gabriel Attal seemed in particular to extend a pole to the left, after having “heard socialist leaders defending capitalization for pensions, competitiveness or budgetary responsibility”.

"So much the better ! With the defense of Europe and support for Ukraine, these are elements that can bring us together. For my part too, I have evolved, particularly on the method and the sharing of power,” he argued.

Hyperactive campaign

Launched for four months in a hyperactive campaign, Mr. Attal is still seeking to establish a dynamic which would allow him to gain the upper hand in a space saturated with candidates, where Édouard Philippe continues to be ahead of him according to the various opinion surveys.

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“No one folds the match. “No one is in a position to win or be guaranteed to appear in the second round,” he argued again on Saturday.

In this sense, he reiterated that he did not exclude the “possibility” of a primary which could be “a solution” to regulate ambitions, while according to him, no “natural candidate” is currently emerging.