Gabriel Attal, France's next prime minister, identifies as gayand is the first LGBTQ+ person to hold this office.
At 34, Attalwho succeeds Elisabeth Borne, who resigned after 20 months in officeis also the youngest prime minister in modern French history, the BBC noted. Socialist Laurent Fabius was 37 when he was appointed by Francois Mitterrand in 1984.
Macron posted on social media, "I know I can count on your energy and your commitment to implement the project of revitalization and regeneration that I announced."
Attal, who is in a civil partnership with Stephane Sejourne, will now have to lead the French government into important European Parliament elections in June.
Attal's rise has been rapid. At 29, he became the youngest-ever minister in the Fifth Republic, with a junior post at education; from 2020, he was government spokesman and his face began to register with the voters; after Macron's re-election, he was briefly budget minister and then headed education last July.
Andrew Davis