French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is to lead the parliamentary group of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party in the French National Assembly, BFMTV channel reported on Saturday. A total of 84 of the party’s 98 lawmakers voted in favour of Attal’s appointment to lead the party after its electoral defeat as part of of France’s centrist camp in the recent parliamentary elections. Attal promised to “build bridges with the political forces that are committed to the republic and the success of France while respecting the values of the party,” in a message of thanks published in t…