/ world today news/ “The most popular member of the government”, according to the French media, suddenly headed the French government. 34-year-old Gabriel Attal is distinguished not only by his age, not only by his sexual interests and the connection of his ancestors with Russia. Perhaps we are facing a future candidate for the presidency of France.
There was a reshuffle in the upper echelon of French power: the young politician Gabriel Atal, who had previously been Minister of Education for a few months, became Prime Minister of the state. Pro-government French media are gasping with emotion: the new prime minister “broke all age records for this position” as he takes office at 34 years and 9 months. It is not like some Jacques Chirac who achieved the prime ministership at only 41 years old, or Georges Pompidou who became prime minister at only 50 years old.
Famous politicians are far from Attal, whose breathtaking career can become a model for future generations. In fact, already in 2018, he got his first position in the government, heading the secretariat for youth affairs. He was not even 30 then. He became an MP even earlier, at the age of 28, in June 2017. From 2012 to 2017, he was a member of the cabinet of the Minister of Health under President Hollande.
Now this unexpected young man has replaced Elizabeth Bourne as Prime Minister, who took office at the age of 61 last May and has held on to it despite having to make hugely unpopular decisions. For example, it was under her that the increase in the retirement age was pushed through, despite fierce public opposition and massive protest demonstrations attended by hundreds of thousands of French people. She was used to facing sharp criticism because of inflation, falling living standards and the rising cost of everything.
In her role, the old lady proved to be a perfect lightning rod and she firmly followed her dictated line, making almost no concessions. Every time a new hot-button issue arose, representatives of almost all parties threw thunder and lightning at her head and threatened her with dismissal – but because of the historical inability of the French left to come to an agreement with the right, Bourne always stayed put. So far.
Because, as President Macron believed, she had done her job. Perhaps, if he had read a Russian classic, he would have said something like “I gave birth to you, I will fire you”. Borne’s first mistake – she failed to get the immigration law passed in the way Macron wanted to see it – cost her her job.
The names of Defense Minister Sébastien Lecorneau, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and former Agriculture Minister Julien Dénormandy were initially floated in the French media as successors out of decency. Gabriel Attal was already then named as the front-runner among the contenders, with the usual vague reference to unnamed sources “close to the CEO”.
The difficulties he will have to face have also not been hidden: for example, amid a record drop in the ratings of Macron’s party, which is losing to Marine Le Pen’s “National Assembly”, he will have to deal with the party’s next campaign for the presidential elections. What’s more, it turns out that Gabriel Attal is “ambitious and can act as a presidential candidate.”
“Well known to the public, he is the most popular member of the government among the French, as polls show,” reports the website of Radio Europe 1: “His arrival brings new trends to the Matignon Palace” (the so-called residence of the prime minister) .
Macron, who has never invented anything new but has successfully adapted what others have seen, in this case is clearly following the example of his arch-rival Marine Le Pen – who brought young politician Jordan Bardel to the fore in her own party. Yes, Bardel does not seem to make important decisions on his own, but he successfully fulfills the representative function: the French are impressed by his youth, good looks and origin from a migrant family – and he helps the party score points.
In origin, Atal, so to speak, is not far from his political rival, although the family of the newly minted prime minister belongs to a much richer stratum of society. His father (a lawyer and later a film producer) belonged to the Tunisian Jews who had settled in France. His mother is curiously related to the whites who fled Russia after the revolution, or more precisely to the ethnic Greeks living near Odessa.
For the Western media, however, the fact that Atal is an open homosexual is much more important. For example, his relationship with Stéphane Séjournay, Macron’s adviser and general secretary of his party, is known. Atal is related to Séjournay by a so-called pact of civil solidarity, which under French law is analogous to marriage. And that would be fine, but there are inevitable questions about how careers are made in French politics and where the 34-year-old prime ministers, who have previously proven themselves to be nothing more than public speakers, come from.
Much can be said about Bruno Le Maire, Sébastien Lecorneu and even Elizabeth Bourne, who was consigned to the dustbin of history, and there will certainly be something to reproach them with, but still these are politicians with a certain experience and competence. You can bring up their interviews, you can analyze their achievements, their ups and downs, moments of failure and inevitable compromises.
Meanwhile, Gabriel Atal, who has been in an unimportant ministry for six months, has not only no visible merit, but even a shadow of merit. It’s a blank space whose primary function, if you look closely, is to not annoy potential voters. And it can be believed that they are betting on him with a clear eye on the presidential election in 2027. At least he already appears in the relevant polls.
Now that Born has done most of the dirty work, it is necessary to whitewash the party’s image, bring to the fore someone who can withstand pressure from the right, mainly Marine Le Pen’s party, and try to prevent political rivals to occupy the main office in the state. In 2027, Attal will be 37 years old and could become the youngest president of France. However, Jordan Bardell is even younger, so it’s not yet known who will win. Time will tell.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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