Gabriel Attal

He was Prime Minister from January to September 2024, at 34 the youngest in the Fifth Republic. He is general secretary of Renaissance and heads its group in the National Assembly. He declared himself a candidate for the 2027 French presidential election on 22 May 2026.

Career

Attal attended the École alsacienne and earned a master's degree in public affairs from Sciences Po in 2012. A Socialist Party member from 2006 to 2016, he joined Macron's movement, now Renaissance, in 2016. He was elected to the National Assembly for Hauts-de-Seine in 2017, became junior education minister in 2018, government spokesperson in 2020, budget minister in 2022 and education minister in 2023. He was Prime Minister from 9 January to 5 September 2024, then led the Renaissance group in the Assembly; he has been the party's general secretary since December 2024.

Positions

Wikipedia describes Attal as supporting laïcité, controlled immigration, expansion of nuclear energy and European integration, and as proposing a debate on surrogacy, which drew criticism from several parties. Announcing his candidacy in Aveyron, he made the idea of elevation, individual and collective, his theme, saying he wants French children and grandchildren to have better lives. Within the centrist bloc his main rival is Édouard Philippe of Horizons.

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