Advisor for the Ministry of Health straight out of college, Minister of Education at 29, Prime Minister at 34
France has a population of almost 70 million, of which around half a million are Jews. The country has now had two Jewish prime ministers in a row.
That’s quite the coincidence.
Emmanuel Macron has appointed France’s youngest prime minister in modern times, Gabriel Attal, as he seeks to reinvigorate a difficult second term as president and limit any possible gains for the far right in the forthcoming European elections in June.
Attal, 34, who was serving as education minister, has been referred to as a “baby Macron” in terms of his ambition, strong media presence and centrist politics, and is considered the best-known and most recognisable face of the close circle of young politicians around the president.
During his five months defending a hard line on authority and secularism as education minister – including banning girls in state schools from wearing abayas and experimenting with introducing school uniform – Attal had shot up the opinion polls as the most popular minister in government.
Why are you bringing in Moslems and then openly agitating them like this? Who does this help?
Macron wrote on X that he was counting on Attal’s energy and engagement to restore the spirit of 2017 – the year of Macron’s first election when he promised to revolutionise French politics. Since 2022, Macron’s second term has been defined by turbulence in a divided parliament since losing his absolute majority in elections shortly after being reelected president.
Attal, who has also served as budget minister, became a household name as government spokesperson during the Covid pandemic and is regarded by some as a master of political communication. A calm, careful speaker who can sometimes be ferocious in political TV debates against the far right, he is known to believe that it is important “to speak to people’s hearts”. He won support for speaking out about being bullied at school.
“Speaking to people’s hearts” is a euphemism for “emotional manipulation.” It was not considered a valid political strategy before the political system was taken over by women and Jews.
You don’t find Xi Jinping “speaking to people’s hearts,” you instead find him speaking about what we used to call “the national interest.”
Attal is also the first openly gay prime minister of France and in a civil partnership with Stéphane Séjourné, a member of the European parliament for Macron’s Renaissance party.
Although Attal was once part of the centrist wing of the left’s Socialist party, he quit in his 20s to support Macron’s centrist project in 2017. Viewed as a defender of centrist politics in France, he has also in recent months reached out to members of parliament in the rightwing party Les Républicains, whose support is often crucial for legislation to be passed.
Macron’s decision to replace the former prime minister Élisabeth Borne and reshuffle the government is not regarded as a fundamental political shift. Sylvain Maillard, head of Macron’s Renaissance party in parliament, said Attal could be relied on to “faithfully” carry Macron’s project for the country.
He should have picked an Arab. There are a lot more Arabs in France than Jews.
An Arab could go out and say all this stuff that Macron wants to say, but can’t because it’s not politically correct. The Arab could say all kinds of crazy shit and Macron could be like “well, what are you gonna do? He’s a minority!”
Of course, the fact that a second Jew was picked simply shows that Macron is not the one making these decisions. Paris is run by Washington, the same as Berlin.
And they still whine…