Elisabeth Borne. Calls for the resignation of Elisabeth Borne are increasing in the opposition, but the Prime Minister is trying to continue her mission at the head of the government. An attitude that seems to remove the specter of a resignation.
[Mise à jour le 24 juin à 19h12] The results of the legislative elections did not change the course set by Elisabeth Borne. If her resignation is requested by a large part of the opposition, the Prime Minister continues to fulfill her functions and exchanged with the presidents of parliamentary groups on Thursday and Friday. If the government continues the dialogue with the other parties present in the National Assembly, the results are not yet there. The telephone conversation of the head of government did not convince the forces of the left. The rebellious Mathilde Panot even evoked a discussion “lunar in many aspects”, according to BFM TV. During a press conference organized this Friday, the MP revealed that “the general impression which emerges from this call is ultimately that Macronie is sailing by sight and absolutely does not know where it is going”. To support her remarks, the MP in Val-de-Marne invited the executive to improve the situation in the emergency room. To which the Prime Minister would have replied that she did not “know” yet what she was going to do. “The other impression is that Macronie lives in a kind of parallel reality where they would have won these legislative elections”, concluded the rebellious elected official. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party also reiterated the call for Elisabeth Borne to submit to a vote of confidence in the National Assembly.
On the side of environmentalists, the same impression left by the Prime Minister. Julien Bayou. The chosen one from EELV spoke of a “surreal, timeless” exchange. “Public policies cannot be made around cafes at the Élysée, or by phone calls between the Prime Minister and the heads of groups”, he denounced. For the Socialists, the “total absence of proposals” shows that Elisabeth Borne “did not know where she was going”. The phone call from Matignon did not give anything “substantial”, according to the Communists who deplore a lack of announcements “following these interviews. Fabien Roussel’s party even wonders if this series of interviews n had not been conducted “for form”.
Elisabeth Borne seeks to assert herself as “political” Prime Minister
Her interviews were an opportunity for Elisabeth Borne to fully fit into her costume as head of government and to try to put forward a political profile that no one recognizes in her, she who is still described as “techno”. “I don’t know what that means ‘technical'”, she evacuated on LCI Thursday. “Does that mean locked up behind my desk? It’s the complete opposite of who I am. My goal is to provide the best answers to the French people and my belief is that it’s done through dialogue.”
A dialogue that, in such a situation, no one seems to be able to conduct better. Despite a François Bayrou who seems to want to lather the board of the Prime Minister – “The times demand that the Prime Minister be political. That we do not have the feeling that it is the technique that governs the country but on the contrary the deep feelings which are expressed in the people”, he declared on France Inter -, no politician from Emmanuel Macron’s camp appears to be providential to lead the negotiations. Enough to make the President of the Republic think about a possible dismissal of Elisabeth Borne, who could also be badly perceived in public opinion, less than two months after the appointment of a woman to Matignon, expected for 31 year.
Although she seems particularly under pressure and refuses, at this stage, to say whether or not she will submit to a vote of confidence from the deputies, Elisabeth Borne could however keep her place as Prime Minister. At least once. Because according to certain advisers of the talkative executive in the columns of Figaro, the refusal of the Head of State would betray his desire not to renew Elisabeth Borne rue de Varenne. What is certain is that the international agenda of the Head of State obliges the Prime Minister and her team to remain at work for several more days. And after ? Is Elisabeth Borne on an ejection seat?
The refusal of Elisabeth Borne’s resignation appeared to be an unexpected decision on the part of the President of the Republic. However, several elements could justify the choice of Emmanuel Macron. Starting with the desire of his head of government to remain in office to be able to carry out some hot issues. “The Prime Minister pleaded to stay in order to have the tools to deal with the situation and the emergencies of the French, which we could not do with a resigning government and in the management of current affairs”, indicates the entourage. from the Matignon tenant to World. Among the topics of the moment that Elisabeth Borne would like to advance: the revaluation of the point of index of civil servants, the extension of the car bonus, the launch of the flash mission on emergencies in the hospital or even texts related to Parcoursup.
Faced with all these files, Emmanuel Macron would not want to have a “prevented” government because of his status as a resigner. A status that could have lasted, while the future ministerial team takes shape. Because the Head of State does not like to rush. He made this clear after his re-election, taking three weeks to appoint his new government. If he had accepted the resignation of Elisabeth Borne, haste would have dictated his choices because, from Thursday, Emmanuel Macron will no longer be in France: Brussels on Thursday, Munich this weekend for the G7, then Madrid at the start of next week, indicates The Parisian. However, “Macron cannot fly abroad leaving the country without Prime Minister and government” notes an adviser to the daily. Thus, Emmanuel Macron renewed his confidence in Elisabeth Borne. True choice or coincidence?
Elisabeth Borne was appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron on May 16, 2022, after weeks of speculation following the latter’s re-election on April 24. The Head of State had assured a few days before this appointment that he wanted by his side “someone sensitive to social, environmental and productive issues”, a personality “embodiing both ‘renewal’ and at the same time time ‘someone solid, capable of doing 20 hours in front of fifteen million viewers and of holding in the cauldron of the Assembly, during questions to the government'”, also said the entourage of the head of state. All with “an asserted ecological sensitivity because Emmanuel Macron has promised to appoint a ‘prime minister in charge of ecological planning'” (Le Monde).
Elisabeth Borne thus imposed herself as the one who ticked the most boxes in this equation. It even became obvious in the very last days before his appointment, especially after the outcry provoked in the majority by the hypothesis Catherine Vautrin, former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy who had fought against marriage for all during the quinquennium by Francois Hollande.
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.