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Politico (10 January 2024)

BY CLEA CAULCUTT

As France’s youngest ever PM, Gabriel Attal will have to save Macron’s legacy — though he may have eyes to eclipse it.

French President Emmanuel Macron has propelled rising star Gabriel Attal center stage in a high-risk gamble aimed at stopping the far right’s surge ahead of the European election.  

In a surprise move on Tuesday, Macron appointed his former education minister and one of France’s most popular politicians as the country’s youngest-ever prime minister in a bid to re-energize his flagging presidency — at the risk of hastening the end of his own reign.

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