president macron clearly is hoping to capitalise on gabriel attal s popularity. whether that will work or not, remains to be seen. critics are already saying that rather than making mr macron more popular, gabriel attal may be brought down by president macron s own popularity. we will have to see. i think one of the things that has attracted president macron to gabriel attal is his youth. because he is looking at the moment at the european elections coming up injune. marine le pen anti immigration euro sceptic party according to the opinion polls will do better than any other french political party in the european elections and her campaign or her party s campaign is being led by the
ask you what kind of difference do you think eye mac will make given his background and age attal. he his background and age attal. he is his background and age attal. he: is certainly the youngest prime minister and president macron wants to inject new energy into his government which appears to have been drifting a little bit. at least thatis been drifting a little bit. at least that is the general consensus during his second term as president. especially because his party lost its parliamentary majority in 2022. he has been struggling to legislate and he is either had to use a very young popular executive decree mechanism to push through bills without a parliamentary vote or he has had to depend on fright wing support. the previous prime minister elisabeth borne was associated with left wing of his party. she was previously associates a socialist
and has found it difficult to reach out to the opposition right wing party is that mr macron needs to bring on board in order to gain a de facto parliamentary majority. gabriel attal is seen as better place to do so, although he began his political career on the left of the political spectrum, he is seen as having moved towards the right and would now be situated somewhere in the centre right along with mr macron himself. i5 in the centre right along with mr macron himself. in the centre right along with mr macron himself. is he going to do what mr macron macron himself. is he going to do what mr macron wants macron himself. is he going to do what mr macron wants them - macron himself. is he going to do what mr macron wants them to i macron himself. is he going to do | what mr macron wants them to do, macron himself. is he going to do - what mr macron wants them to do, ie is he going to refresh the government, is he going to make people, quite frankly, like mr macron a little bit