Emmanuel Macron has appointed 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal as his new prime minister on Tuesday, as the French President seeks to breathe new life into his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections.
Attal, a close ally of Marcon, becomes France’s youngest prime minister.
“The Macron-Attal duo can bring a new lease of life (to the government),” said Harris Interactive pollster Jean-Daniel Levy.
The move comes after Elisabeth Borne’s resignation on Monday. In her resignation letter, Borne said she and Macron agreed in their last meeting that “it was more necessary than ever to push on with reforms.”