France Has It's First Openly Gay Prime Minister

 President Emmanuel Macron was looking to increase the popularity of his party so he named a new Prime Minister who happens to be young and openly gay.

Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old French education minister, has been named the country’s new prime minister, a history-making appointment by President Emmanuel Macron as he looks to jumpstart his government’s flagging popularity.

Attal will be France’s youngest-ever prime minister and the first openly gay man to serve in the post – making him one of the world’s most prominent and powerful LGBTQ politicians.

Attal, a rising star in Macron’s Renaissance Party, has served as minister of education and national youth since July. During his tenure, he enacted a controversial ban on the wearing of the abaya in French public schools and has worked on raising awareness of bullying in schools.

“I know I can count on your energy and your commitment,” Macron said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, following the announcement.

Attal, like the French President, was aligned with the center-left Socialist Party before he joined Macron’s centrist political movement. In recent years his politics have drifted at times to the right, though he has maintained a shape-shifting political identity in the mold of his boss.

Attal was the government spokesman during the pandemic, which immediately boosted his profile among the general French public. His political career has since progressed at lightning speed for a man of his age. During Macron’s second term, Attal was tapped to lead the ministry of public works and public accounts before becoming education minister.

As prime minister, he will be charged with forming a new government and ensuring the passage of legislation that advances the president’s agenda. Most power, however, lies with the French presidency.

He replaces Elisabeth Borne, who resigned from her post on Monday after a tumultuous 20-month tenure marked by unpopular retirement reforms and the urban riots last summer that followed the police shooting of a teenage boy of Algerian descent.

“Throughout these years, throughout these months, I have never backed down from any obstacle. I have never backed away from any reform. I carried out the projects that seemed right and necessary for our country,” Borne said at a handover ceremony alongside Attal on Tuesday. “I am proud of the work accomplished during these almost 20 months.”

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We would expect to see more and more openly gay, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary or even trans-species leaders emerge into positions of leadership as the world grows closer to falling into chaos.  The French pride themselves on being the first European country to embrace the Age of Enlightenment which means rejecting the God of the Bible and embracing science as their god.

We expect France to be in real trouble going forward as their 1500 mosques and millions of Muslims exert more and more influence and demands.  We are guessing that the Muslims of France are not impressed by this gay man being named Prime Minister.  This could cause even more division in the already divided nation.