Why France's new prime minister Gabriel Attal faces an uphill political task
On Tuesday French president Emmanuel Macron chose Gabriel Attal to replace prime minister Élisabeth Borne, who had been dismissed the day before. At the age of 34, the former socialist activist becomes the youngest head of government in France since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Yet as Mediapart's political correspondent Ilyes Ramdani reports, though former education minister Attal is popular with the public, unless there is a change of direction or style in the government his future political path could turn out to be just as impossible as that of his predecessor.
EmmanuelEmmanuel Macron consulted a great deal and hesitated a long time. In the end, the French of state chose to change his prime minister for the third time since he was first elected back in 2017. After Édouard Philippe, Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne, it is education minister Gabriel Attal who is taking over as head of government.
