By choosing the young and dynamic Gabriel Attal on Tuesday to replace veteran technocrat Elisabeth Borne as prime minister, just weeks after the immigration law divided his government and his party, it is as if the French president is saying: I am here, I still exist!
Patrick Vignal, a former Socialist and now a deputy for Renaissance, the ruling party, says Attal reminds him of Macron in 2016, when the current president was starting his then-unlikely run for the Elysee. Attal is a younger version, and without the usury of power. He breathes freshness and desire into us, Vignal says over the phone. It's more than a new page. It's...
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