 Immigration is overwhelming our identity, our security, our country's finances, he said. If I'm prime minister in a few days, I will drastically reduce it. Centrist Attal, who is only 35, positioned himself as a safe pair of hands with experience in the realities of power. He repeatedly asked Bardella, how will you pay for it? Bardella told Attal, if he were credible, the country wouldn't be facing snap elections with Macron's coalition in third place. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.