Like the President of the Republic, Elisabeth Borne is determined not to rush.
Arriving Monday evening at Matignon, the Prime Minister is progressing at her own pace.
Apart from a brief statement on the perrondu 57 rue de Varenne then a tweet on Tuesday afternoon on "the world day for the fight against LGBTphobia", the head of government has not yet wanted to express herself further in a television news to present its course to the French.
Unlike his two predecessors who went to TF1 the very day of their appointment.
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"We had a little preview, now we are waiting for the rest
," says a ministerial adviser impatiently.
While inviting to
"not overestimate the role"
of the tenant of Matignon, whoever he is.
“It is Macron who decides and Matignon who executes…”
, breathes the same.
Tuesday noon, the two heads of the executive shared a lunch.
The opportunity to discuss in particular the composition of the next government, expected in the coming days.
A cast whose public expression will be partly limited from Monday, the start of the reserve period before the legislative elections.
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“Ecology, gender equality… “The Borne effect” is good, it is in our interest to make it last”
, nevertheless believes a deputy from the left wing of the majority, in no hurry to discover the new team of ministers who will surround the first female head of government for thirty-one years.
All the outgoing ministers have not yet been contacted by the new majority boss.
Exchanges with Édouard Philippe
One of his first interlocutors, from Monday evening, was Christophe Castaner, the president of the group of LREM deputies.
The latter had the scoop of a visit on Tuesday Elisabeth Borne also exchanged several SMS with Édouard Philippe.
The mayor of Le Havre
“is delighted with his appointment.
He finds her intelligent and courageous in the reforms she has carried out
,” says her right-hand man, Gilles Boyer.
For the anecdote, it is a member of the philippiste party Horizons, Freddy Sertin, who is the substitute of Élisabeth Borne in the legislative elections in Calvados.
Like Jean-Marc Ayrault and François Fillon – but unlike Édouard Philippe – the newly appointed Prime Minister will be a candidate in this election.
"It's all the difference with those who say" elect me "in an election where they are not candidates"
, noted on Twitter the general delegate of LREM, Stanislas Guerini.
Allusion to Jean-Luc Mélenchon who dreams of succeeding Élisabeth Borne in Matignon in June, at the end of legislative elections which he imagines victorious for his left alliance.
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The arrival of the former Minister of Labor at the head of the government was greeted harshly by the Nupes (New People's Ecological and Social Union).
“It's a choice that carries a clear message of social mistreatment, ecological mistreatment.
Elisabeth Borne is the minister who implemented the unemployment insurance reform, which reduced the compensation of 1 million people by almost 20%”
, loaded on France 2 the MEP Insoumis Manuel Bompard.
Conversely, the LR mayor of La Baule, Franck Louvrier hailed an
“excellent choice”
on Radio J.
“She comes from a family that is rather left-wing and she has made reforms that the right might have dreamed of doing"
, noted the former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy.
Same tone from former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who praised the
“exceptional qualities”
of Elisabeth Borne on BFMTV and RMC.
While asking him
“not to let himself be locked up in bureaucracy”
.
Francois Bayrou absent
In the midst of all these comments, a few absent.
Like François Bayrou.
The president of the MoDem hailed the results of Jean Castex on Twitter on Monday evening without having a word for Élisabeth Borne.
He was never really convinced by his “techno” profile.
No more, moreover, by that of the president of Greater Reims, Catherine Vautrin, whose hypothesis of an appointment ignited the majority last weekend.
Leaving some traces of mistrust between several of its components.
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No matter, before tackling the tough reforms, the Prime Minister composes her cabinet, of which Aurélien Rousseau will be the director
.
Leaving, for the moment, the ministers the field free to campaign while waiting to know their fate.
Bruno Le Maire thus continued his tour of France on Tuesday by stopping in the North.