Macron confirms Borne, new government in early July

(ANSA) - PARIS, June 25 - French President Emmanuel Macron has "decided to confirm confidence" in Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne after a first round of consultations with the political forces following the defeat suffered in Sunday's legislative elections.

He announced it in an interview with AFP.

    Macron said he had given the prime minister the task of casting out the parties and presenting proposals by the end of next week for the formation of a "new government of action" to be appointed "in the first days of July".

The executive will be able to join, he explained, representatives of political forces ready to cooperate.

    "On my return from the G7 and NATO leaders - Macron said - the Prime Minister will submit proposals for a roadmap for the government of France for the next few months and years, and for the composition of a new government of action in the service of France that we will form in the first days of July ".

This government, you explained, will be able to join representatives of political forces ready to cooperate with the majority.

"I trust - added the president - in our collective capacity to make it. I have faith in the ability of the Prime Minister to make it emerge. I have faith in the sense of responsibility of the government forces".

The red line of the new government will be not to increase "neither the tax nor the debt," Macron added.

stressing that it will not give up on pension reforms and full employment.

These are, he insisted, the "two great reforms that we must carry out through concertation, without a totem nor a taboo".

(HANDLE).