The President of France, Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced the appointment of Gabriel Attal as the new French Prime Minister.
Attal succeeded Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday during an official ceremony at the prime minister's residence.
Borne resigned after 20 months in office.
“Thank you Mr President for your trust. I appreciate the honour given to me to be appointed Prime Minister. One course: keep control of our destiny, unleash French potential and rearm our country. At work, with strength, humility and without taboos in the service of the French,” he said on X.
The appointment makes Attal, 34, the youngest ever person to serve as Prime Minister of France.
Before he was appointed PM, Attal served as the French Minister for Education.
Other positions he held include secretary of state in the education ministry at the age of 29, head of (La République En Marche) LREM, government spokesperson, and public accounts minister.
He was first elected to the Assemblée National in 2017.
He is also the first openly gay person to hold the PM’s office in France.
Attal has been in a civil partnership with lawyer and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Stéphane Sejourné, since 2017.
Attal is the 26th PM of France under the Fifth French Republic from 1958.
Attal was born on March 16, 1989 in Clamart, Île-de-France.
He attended École alsacienne, a private school in the 6th arrondissement in the French capital. He then studied law at Panthéon-Assas University from 2008 to 2011.
The French PM also studied at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in 2012, where he received a Master of Public Affairs.
