Emmanuel Macron appointed the Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, as the new Prime Minister of France. Immediately, Attal aroused quite a bit of discussion due to several details that distinguish him from his predecessors.
At 34, Gabriel Attal is France's youngest prime minister since the post-war era. The record was previously held by Laurent Fabius, who was 37 when he was appointed prime minister in 1984.
Gabriel is France's first gay prime minister, or at least the first prime minister to openly admit he is gay. He had an affair with Stephane Sejourne, Macron's former political adviser.
Attal joined the Socialist Party when he was 17 years old. He became a household name in French politics after being appointed government spokesman during the pandemic.
Attal's first reform after being appointed as education minister last year was to ban the Muslim abaya in state schools, which gave him more popularity among many conservative voters.
Recently, he stated that he was bullied in high school.
