{"id":20967,"date":"2026-05-23T02:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/20967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:07:42","slug":"frances-youngest-pm-attal-to-run-for-president-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/20967\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s youngest PM Attal to run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France\u2019s former prime minister Gabriel Attal said on Friday he would run for president next year when Emmanuel Macron steps down, becoming the second prominent centrist to challenge the far-right.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI can\u2019t take this kind of French politics anymore, where it\u2019s just 50 shades of managing decline,\u201d said the 37-year-old, who was France\u2019s youngest prime minister when he served in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He announced his bid under a blazing sun in the southern village of Mur-de-Barrez \u2013 the kind of rural area where France\u2019s centrists hope to strengthen their performance against the far-right National Rally (RN) party.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"General Secretary of French centrist party Renaissance Gabriel Attal (middle) has lunch with members of his team and supporters after announcing his candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections during a visit to the village of Mur-de-Barrez in southwestern France on Friday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b3786196-8b90-437a-ba90-3ff84cd2adb3_741ac6ff.jpg\" title=\"General Secretary of French centrist party Renaissance Gabriel Attal (middle) has lunch with members of his team and supporters after announcing his candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections during a visit to the village of Mur-de-Barrez in southwestern France on Friday. Photo: AFP\"\/>General Secretary of French centrist party Renaissance Gabriel Attal (middle) has lunch with members of his team and supporters after announcing his candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections during a visit to the village of Mur-de-Barrez in southwestern France on Friday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Attal joins a crowded field of candidates, including 55-year-old Edouard Philippe, an experienced centre-right former prime minister, and hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon, 74.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The RN party is banking on its best chance yet at winning power next year, with either Marine Le Pen, or Jordan Bardella, 30, running for the country\u2019s top job.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The newest presidential candidate, an openly gay Parisian educated in top schools, made history when he became France\u2019s youngest ever prime minister at the age of 34.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His meteoric rise in politics has drawn comparisons with Macron, who was 39 when he won the Elysee Palace in 2017, becoming France\u2019s youngest head of state since Napoleon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Attal will turn 38 next March, just ahead of the presidential election scheduled for April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France\u2019s former prime minister Gabriel Attal said on Friday he would run for president next year when Emmanuel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,15756,1859,5,4327,15755,390,3954,2645,15754,11251,2967,15758,15757,6336],"class_list":["post-20967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-european-commissioner","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-gabriel-attal","tag-horizons-party","tag-jean-luc-melenchon","tag-jordan-bardella","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-mur-de-barrez","tag-napoleon","tag-national-rally","tag-parisian","tag-renaissance-party","tag-stephane-sejourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}