France appoints youngest, new prime minister Gabriel Attal

French President Emmanuel Marcon appointed 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as the nation's new prime minister on Tuesday.

Attal, 34, will be the youngest person to hold France's second-highest office, according to an Associated Press report. In addition, he is the first gay prime minister of France.

Since President Macron is constitutionally prohibited from serving a third consecutive term and wants to start over for the remainder of his term, which ends in 2027, Attal was named prime minister.

Joining Macron's newly formed political movement in 2016, Attal served as the government spokesperson from 2020 to 2022, gaining widespread recognition among the French public in that capacity.

After that, he was named minister of the budget. In July, he was appointed to the highly esteemed position of minister of education within the French government.

Elisabeth Borne, his predecessor, reportedly resigned on Monday in the wake of recent political unrest over an immigration law that increases the government's authority to deport foreign nationals.

In her letter of resignation, Borne claimed that she was leaving because of Macron's "will" to "appoint a new prime minister."

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