The Prime Minister has all my trust “, said Emmanuel Macron in Bratislava where he was traveling. The day after a Council of Ministers where, according to the confidences of a daily participant The Parisianthe president had seemed to reframe Élisabeth Borne by evoking the response to the National Rally, Emmanuel Macron tried to calm the rumors about his degraded relationship with his Prime Minister.
There was fire and Emmanuel Macron tried to extinguish the fire by reaffirming his confidence in Elisabeth Borne publicly. Nevertheless, despite this clarification, many episodes have already given the impression that the relationship between the President of the Republic and his Prime Minister had entered a zone of turbulence. When Elisabeth Borne declared that she no longer wanted to use 49.3 outside budgetary texts, the president tackled her in the press. When the head of government wanted to calm things down with the unions on pension reform by talking about a necessary ” recovery period », the head of state’s team – then in China – did not appreciate it and let it be known immediately. When Elisabeth Borne wanted to postpone the immigration bill in the fall, Emmanuel Macron put it back on the 100-day agenda.
“Annoyed”
Despite the efforts of the Élysée and Matignon to try to deceive, a senior official of the majority believes that the president is ” annoyed “because he sees that” it does not work “. As proof, he argues, she offered her resignation to the president to reappoint her. He told her no “, the sign that Emmanuel Macron did not want to give him a new impetus after the pension reform. To hear it, it can’t last and the countdown has begun for Elisabeth Borne.
” A enterprise of destabilization »
But other voices are heard to defend the Prime Minister, the only one capable, according to them, of ensuring balance in the majority for the moment. A Renaissance MP warns against a ” enterprise of destabilization » by Élisabeth Borne, resented by « colleagues of the National Assembly. And above all, she wonders about the political interest of the president to hasten his departure from Matignon. He would rather tend to want wear it down “.
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