A new candidate has entered the race for the 2027 presidential election: Gabriel Attal, Emmanuel Macron’s short-lived former prime minister, who was once touted as his heir apparent and is now a rival within the presidential majority to another former prime minister, Édouard Philippe. Aged 37, he is banking not on his manifesto but on his personal appeal. Young and gay, he openly admits that, if elected, he intends to change French law to author…