On January 9, at the age of 34, Gabriel Attar was appointed prime minister of France, replacing Elisabeth Bornet, who has been in power for 20 months. Gabriel Attar is France's former Minister of National Education and Youth and is now the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the French Fifth Republic.
The 62-year-old Elisabeth Bornet, the second female prime minister in French history, passed a bill to reform the retirement system during her tenure as prime minister, which has not been gnawed by several cabinets. However, since the beginning of 2023, Macron** has faced significant resistance to many of Macron's reform measures. Changing the prime minister and reshuffling the cabinet has become a choice that has to be made.
Attar is relatively popular among the public** and is considered the "most popular figure" in the cabinet in several polls. In 2018, at the age of 29, Attar entered France** as Secretary of State for National Education and Youth, becoming the youngest cabinet member in the history of the French Fifth Republic. Subsequently, he successively served as the Spokesperson, the Ministerial Representative in charge of Public Accounts, and in July 2023 he became the Minister of National Education and Youth. The Ministry of National Education and Youth has a high budget and is one of the most important ministries in the French Cabinet. During his tenure in this department, Atal made a number of decisions, such as banning the wearing of Arabic robes in schools, combating bullying in schools, and piloting school uniforms, which were welcomed by the public.
It is generally believed that Atal is a loyal "student" of Macron. But some political opponents pointed out that he was nothing more than a "copy" of Macron: they all came from wealthy middle-class elite families who were separated from the lives of ordinary people, graduated from prestigious universities, and lacked practical understanding of the suffering of the people at the bottom and the reality of society.
Of course, for Attar, the first openly gay French prime minister, his merits and demerits depend on his political achievements. After becoming prime minister, in addition to going all out to participate in the European Parliament elections and the Paris Olympics, he also faced many more severe tests, including the decline in purchasing power, social security, immigration, social security, ecological transition and other urgent livelihood issues that are of common concern to the French.
In the history of France, Jacques Chirac has served two terms of 12 years, and he served as prime minister for a long time before taking up the post of **. Before Attar became prime minister, the youngest prime minister of France was Laurent Fabius, who was only 37 years old when he took office in 1984, and then became an evergreen in France, and is still very active today. Observers here believe that with this appointment, Attar may enter the runway of the 2027 French ** election. Previously, Macron's most prestigious prime minister was Eduard Philippe, who formed another party after leaving and consistently ranked first in a number of polls about the next candidate, followed by Attar. According to the latest opinion poll here, 53 percent of the French people are satisfied with the new prime minister's choice.
Another ** believes that Attar has a fresh image, a simple background, a short political experience, few scandals, and a high reputation, Macron chose this young man to take on the role of prime minister, and he also clearly saw that the people and ** are very disgusted with those veteran politicians who have been mixed up for a long time, Macron's move can be called his active layout for the remaining three years of ** term and the next ** election. In addition, Macron's choice of Attar as the new prime minister is seen as a strong response to the aggressive posture of the far-right forces, given that the centrist coalition that supports Macron "together" has a leading lead but does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
2024 is considered to be the "election year" with the largest number of heads of state in history, with more than 70 countries holding elections. France originally did not have arrangements for *** or legislative elections in this year, but unexpectedly, it opened the prelude to the replacement of ** prime minister. The new cabinet formed by Attar will be a litmus test of the young prime minister's ability to govern if it can effectively bridge the differences, meet the challenges, and continue to push forward with relevant reforms.
PARIS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) --
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