It’s now official! After the departure of Elisabeth Borne from Matignon this Monday, January 8, 2024, the young Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, has just been appointed Prime Minister according to information from the presidential entourage. What do we know about the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the Fifth Republic?
The start of the school year on Monday, January 8, 2024 was also shaken up by new announcements from the government. While for several days strong rumors of a reshuffle have been circulating around President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, it is now official. After an interview which lasted more than an hour between Elisabeth Borne and the president this Monday, January 8, 2024, the Prime Minister leaves office. This Tuesday, January 9, 2024, the president’s entourage announced the appointment of Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister, he becomes the youngest politician to occupy this position!
While the latter has already made a lot of noise in recent weeks with declarations and announcements concerning National Education, ban on the abaya in schools, the launch of a trial phase for wearing the uniform school starting next fall, new challenges await! But who is this young 34-year-old minister who has occupied the media space for several months? Portrait of our next prime minister who will take over the helm of Matignon.
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A man in the spotlight
It was in 1998, aged 9, that young Gabriel Attal appeared for the first time on television. A sequence broadcast in the Daily last September which was also the opportunity for the minister to reveal that he had been cast for the film The beautiful person by Christophe Honoré in 2008 alongside Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel. Although he quickly abandoned this film career project, he launched into politics very early, initially joining the Socialist Party for almost ten years from 2006 to 2016. It was only in 2016 that he joined the camp macronist.
At the dawn of his thirties in 2022, Gabriel Attal submits his declaration of assets to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life revealing that he is a millionaire. Indeed, the youngest minister under the Fifth Republic has a life insurance policy following the death of his father worth nearly one million and five euros. If he had a romance with the singer Joyce Jonathan, the man of the moment is today in a relationship and civil partnership with the European MP Stéphane Séjourné.
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