Gabriel Attal on Saturday kicked off his presidential election campaign with a major rally in Paris, vowing to move beyond the Macron era and reform a system he said is no longer delivering for the French people. “For decades, we have been trapped in a system that patches up the failures of the past instead of preparing for the future. By constantly chasing the past, this system is exhausting itself, and exhausting the country,” Attal told hundreds of cheering supporters at Paris Expo. He said