Elisabeth Borne. If Elisabeth Borne easily climbed to the second round of the legislative elections, her result does not guarantee her final victory.
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It was a first. Elisabeth Borne had never before faced direct universal suffrage. The Prime Minister passed the first stage without incident, Sunday June 12, collecting 34.32% of the votes cast (17.10% of those registered) in the 6e constituency of Calvados in which she is a candidate. The head of government comfortably came out on top ahead of Noé Gauchard, the Nupes candidate, credited with 24.53% of the vote. Personally, this election is of particular importance for Elisabeth Borne. Only the second woman to have been appointed to Matignon, a defeat in this local election would lead, de facto, to her resignation. It would also be a big blow to Emmanuel Macron for the start of his second five-year term.
However, the hypothesis cannot be ruled out. Because if Elisabeth Borne is in a favorable tie with 10 points ahead of her opponent, the interval between the two rounds does not promise to be a long calm river for the Prime Minister. Clearly parachuted, however, she inherited a macronist land which voted 30.78% in favor of the President of the Republic on 1er presidential tower. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he won only 17.65% of the votes cast. There is no question of declaring victory too soon for the head of government who could suffer from her techno image placed in a constituency where she is not established, where her opponent, even if he is only 22 years, benefits from an anchoring: he was born there and grew up there with all his family before leaving to study in Paris. Will this section of Normandy lean in favor of the local stopover or of that which has only ancestors – who were settled not far from there, but not in the same constituency -, as a link with the territory? ?
The 6e constituency of Calvados, and more particularly Vire, Elisabeth Borne did not dwell on it on Sunday, after having voted. The Prime Minister quickly joined Paris to follow the announcement of the results alongside the executives of La République en Marche. Which did not go unnoticed locally, giving her opponents the opportunity to issue a number of criticisms, calling her “disdainful” or even “contemptuous” as related West France. An attitude that could make him lose votes? The macronist camp is in any case in retreat on the constituency. At 1er round of the presidential election, the head of state won 22,316 votes. In addition, in 2017, the LREM candidate obtained 17,108 votes. At the same time, the left, then the Nupes, broke through. The challenge of 2e turn, Sunday June 19, will therefore be to know to whom the main reserve of votes, resulting from the RN vote (21.74%, 10,447 votes), will refer. Especially since four other candidates stamped on the left were present in the second round, as was a representative of Reconquest, but also one from the sovereignist right, a various right and a various center. The match still seems very open for Elisabeth Borne. With the risks that entails.
Elisabeth Borne won the first round of the 2022 legislative elections. This Sunday, June 12, the Prime Minister obtained 34.34% of the vote in the 6th constituency of Calvados. She comes first and qualifies for the second round, ahead of the Nupes candidate Noé Gauchard (24.54%) and Jean-Philippe Roy of the RN (21.71), according to the complete results communicated by the Ministry of Interior.
Never elected, the former Minister of Labor, originally from Normandy, was in fact herself invested in the 6th constituency of Calvados, which had placed Emmanuel Macron clearly in the lead in the two rounds of the presidential election (31% of the votes in the first round ). She faces Noé Gauchard, a 22-year-old environmental student who represents Nupes in this constituency and Jean-Philippe Roy for the National Rally. Alain Touret, the outgoing LREM deputy, is leaving his post after three terms as deputy since 1997. He was elected 5 years ago with 68% of the vote.
Who is Elisabeth Borne? Express Biography
Before being appointed Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne was Minister of Labor in the Castex government, after having held the portfolios of Transport and Ecological Transition since 2017. Relatively little known to the French, which can constitute “an asset” in her new functions, it was however “more so than were Édouard Philippe and especially Jean Castex” when they arrived at Matignon.
A graduate of Polytechnique, a tenacious technician, deemed loyal, Elisabeth Borne is in any case perceived by Macronie as having proven herself in government throughout the last five-year term. This former chief of staff of Ségolène Royal, who was also prefect and director of large public companies such as the RATP, also has the merit of belonging to the left wing of the majority, an asset in the run-up to the legislative elections and the he hour when new social reforms are announced, starting with “the mother of the battles” on pensions.
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Her appointment was, however, viewed with caution by some members of the presidential party, sharing the opinion of many pillars of the opposition on one point: Elizabeth Borne is above all a senior civil servant, with a sense of state that borders on administrative loyalty. The profile of this engineer would not be “political enough” in their eyes and should leave plenty of room for Emmanuel Macron in this perimeter.