Gabriel Attal becomes France's youngest, first gay PM: Who is he?
Hindustan TimesFrance's president Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named country's education minister Gabriel Attal with which the the 34-year-old became France's youngest and first openly gay head of government, news agency AFP reported after Elisabeth Borne resigned from the post. The leader of Macron's Renaissance party Sylvain Maillard congratulated Gabriel Attal on X saying, "I am sure that you will be able to faithfully carry out our project and embody the values that are ours." He will be France's youngest prime minister and the first to be openly gay, France MP Patrick Vignal said, adding, “Gabriel Attal is a bit like the Macron of 2017” as when the French president took office he was the youngest leader in modern French history. Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal can together bring a new lease of life to the government but opposition leader said that the French president will himself take on much of the decision-making.