Gabriel Attal Launches 2027 French Presidential Bid at 37

7 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 22

Gabriel Attal, 37, said in Mur-de-Barrez that he will run for France’s 2027 presidential election, formally entering the race to succeed Emmanuel Macron.
Attal framed his bid as a centrist candidacy and said he was running because he "deeply love[s] France and the French people."
The announcement puts Macron’s former prime minister and current Renaissance party leader at the center of the camp seeking to preserve the president’s political legacy.
Attal was the youngest prime minister in modern French history and the first openly gay man to head the French government, giving his candidacy added symbolic weight.

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