Will Elisabeth Borne remain Prime Minister? You are generating a week of tensions with President Emmanuel Macron rumors of cabinet changes, which include it. It was after showing his resistance that she accepted the interrogation of the head of state on his statements regarding the party of Marine Le Pen and his public challenge last Tuesday in the Council of Ministers.
frontal attack. On Sunday 28 May, on Radio J, Borne considered that the National Group (of Marine Le Pen) was still “Petain’s heiress”. The head of government has accused the party, chaired by Jordan Bardella, of leading tona “dangerous ideology”.
Borne also denied any “normalization” of Marine Le Pen’s party.
“I don’t believe at all in the normalization of the National Group. I think we shouldn’t trivialize their ideas: their ideas are always the same. So now National Regrouping is putting forms. But I still think it’s a dangerous ideology,” said the tenant of Matignon.
RN, heir to Petain? “Yes, also Pétain’s heir, absolutely“The prime minister replied.
“I have never heard Marine Le Pen denounce what the historical positions of her party may have been. I think youA name change doesn’t change ideas, rootsBorne judged.
When asked about the possibility of a win for Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter in the 2027 presidential electionthe head of government replied: “I’m afraid so everything is possible. By dint of trivializing it, it’s a real threat.”
The prime minister said at the time of judgment that there is “an obvious closeness” between RN and Vladimir Putin. “If (Marine Le Pen) wants to rewrite history, we must not fall into this trap. This closeness exists and cannot be erased,” she said.
In the stormy council of ministers, President Emmanuel Macron crossed paths with the premier on how to deal with the national grouping. “It is for substance, for reality and not with moral arguments,” said the head of state.
An argument indigestible for Madame Borne, Jewish, daughter of a Jew of Russian origin, originally stateless, escaped from the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, ended up committing suicide. This is how Elisabeth becomes “Student of the Nation”, which allows her to obtain a scholarship.
“I want to express all my confidence in him”, confirmed Emmanuel Macron to guarantee his stay in office, on his trip to Eastern European countries.
Government reshuffle rumors
But rumors of a cabinet reshuffle including her have started and “are imminent”. The link between the two not fluent. Even the premier feels impressed by famous and hateful “little phrases” of the head of state.
The ministerial reorganization circulates in the ministries. Initially Macron had given himself the date of mid-July to launch it before the French went on holiday en masse. Will you try to speed it up?
The government will be challenged again in a massive march on June 6 by trade unionists, who oppose pension reform. The National Assembly will try on June 8 to revoke the controversial e Macronismo must win the vote. Otherwise it will look like a government at the end of the reign.
At the end of the 2022 legislative elections, the second round of which took place on Sunday 19 June, the presidential coalition Together! did not obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly. It’s also a long way from it. This got 245 out of 577 deputies. Well below the threshold set at 289 seats.
Technically, Elisabeth Borne managed to remain Prime Minister: she was re-elected in the sixth constituency of Calvados, with 52.46% of the votes cast.
The head of government was able to keep her job because she complies with the indications given by the Elysium five years ago, according to which ministers defeated in the legislative elections must resign. This is also the case for several members of the government.
But to govern, the head of government will have to maintain the trust of the deputies. However, it can be at the mercy of a coalition of oppositions, for example in the event of a motion of no confidence, which can be presented by Nupes, LR or RN, since each of these groups has at least 58 deputies, required threshold that a parliamentary group presents a motion, it has already managed to win one.
“She’s Not Easy”
Borne managed to pass the most difficult reform (retirement) with decree 49.3 and to advance in the reforms promised in the electoral campaign “He has an advantage. It is she who has the majority,” says a former member of the Elysée.
Unionists respect it, the deputies listen to it. But at the Elysée they complain: “It’s not easy.”
Macron will dare to throw her out, when she is a woman in Matignon or wait for a motion of no confidence, which could arise if the LIOT (centre parties), which managed to get pension reform discussed again in the Assembly, ask for a motion that I could evict her ? Time will tell.
But does the current prime minister have the best profile?
“I have nothing against her. it’s a great technique. But we will need someone very political who knows how to get into the political storm and who can calm Édouard Philippe when necessary and motivate the republicans if necessary. I really don’t feel comfortable with this dynamic,” admitted a councilor from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
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Source: Clarin
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