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MUR DE BARREZ: Gabriel Attal, once France’s youngest prime minister, 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.
“I can’t take this kind of French politics anymore, where it’s just 50 shades of managing decline,” said the 37-year-old.
“I have decided to run for president,” he said under a blazing sun in the southern village of Mur de Barrez.
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.
