Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in as the country’s 5th president on 2 April, just 20 days after he left prison. The 44-year-old is now Africa’s youngest elected president following a dramatic win against former President Macky Sall’s preferred candidate, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba.
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In June 2019, a week after taking office as El Salvador's youngest president in modern history, Nayib Bukele wrote on his Twitter account: "I am officially the coolest president in the world." Bukele's self-congratulatory tweet came after he had used the same social network - now known as X - to fire around 400 officials, some accused of nepotism or with links to his leftist predecessor. Tired of decades of corruption and traditional parties' ineffectiveness in the face of surging violence and a stagnant economy, Salvadorans embraced the then 37-year-old jeans-clad former publicist as a change agent.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint a 34-year-old prime minister surprised many because of his age and relatively short career. The centrist politician is often compared to Macron, France's youngest president, who went from presidential adviser to head of state in a few years. Macron's office in a statement said the choice of Attal to replace Elisabeth Borne, 62, shows the president's willingness to allow “new politicians” to emerge — one of the mottos of the so-called “Macronism” that seeks to break with traditional political parties.