VIDEO: French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's Controversy Statement

VIDEO: French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's Controversy Statement. (VOI Video graphics Team)

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Minister of Education, 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as his new Prime Minister on Tuesday, January 9.

This appointment was made after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned the day before. PM Gabriel Attal was given the mandate to form and reshuffle the existing government in France ahead of the Paris Olympics which will be held in July August.

In France, the PM leads the government and is appointed by the president, although the PM cannot be immediately dismissed by the executive leader. Gabriel Attal has been in politics since he was 17 years old by joining a socialist party. Attal was later appointed junior minister at the Ministry of Finance in 2018 and became increasingly famous in French politics after being appointed a government spokesman during the COVID-19 pandemic.

And in 2023, Gabriel Attal was appointed as Minister of Education and made a policy that was considered anti-Islamic. It is known that when he was Minister of Education, Attal had banned Muslim neglect clothes in the classroom, because according to him the clothes commonly worn by Muslims were considered a test of the principles of secularism in French state schools.

Gabriel Attal also openly through one of France's TV stations has recognized and declared himself gay. Attal also said that he had experienced bullying via a blog in the early days of the internet revolution while studying at a prestigious private school in Paris, including homophobic harassment. Watch the video below.