Reshuffle: youngest Gabriel Attal replaces Sibeth Ndiaye as parolat

Gabriel Attal in the garden of the Four Columns of the Palais Bourbon, during the first parliamentary week of the 15th legislature of the Fifth French Republic (Paris, France). © Antoine Lamielle / Wikimedia Commons

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The government of Jean Castex meets for the first time this Tuesday afternoon. 31 ministers were appointed yesterday. Among them, Gabriel Attal, the youngest of the government. The Secretary of State for Youth, who was in charge of the establishment of the universal national service, takes the strip and becomes the new spokesperson of the government, replacing Sibeth Ndiaye.

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It is the new face of government, and it is a youthful face. At 31, Gabriel Attal continues his ascent in Macronie.

Endowed with a good political sense - unlike some of his colleagues -, with public speaking facilities, and never caught a lack of loyalty towards the official line, his promotion to this post seems logical. He is part of the "young guard" of the Walkers and he had already distinguished himself at the beginning of the quinquennium by being one of the most active deputies on the television sets, rarely refusing to go to the front even when others are discard. Rewarded for his loyalty, he had become a year and a half the youngest member of a government under the Fifth Republic.

Two years before the presidential election, the former socialist activist now becomes the official producer of language elements from the Castex government . With one imperative: avoid quarter faults when his predecessor Sibeth Ndiaye has multiplied blunders in his communication, especially during the health crisis.

Sibeth Ndiaye therefore leaves the government, but it is of her own free will she know. "  A personal choice, insists those around him, after more than seven years in the service of the Republic  ", at the Ministry of the Economy with Arnaud Montebourg and Emmanuel Macron, then at the Élysée Palace, and finally at the government's spokesperson. It is one of the closest to the Head of State who leaves.

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