A tribute from woman to woman.
Two days after the appointment of Élisabeth Borne at Matignon, - a first for 31 years and the choice of Édith Cresson by the then President François Mitterrand -, Brigitte Macron wanted to send a message to the new Prime Minister chosen by her husband, the President of the Republic, three weeks after his re-election.
“
She's a woman.
We are crazy happy.
And he's the right person in the right position
, ”enthuses the first lady at the microphone of TF1, on the sidelines of a visit to Disneyland Paris on Wednesday with 400 children.
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Posing as a cantor of the feminist cause, Brigitte Macron considers that “
women, when (they) are named somewhere, it is even more difficult because, somewhere, we are expected at the turn.
"While the President of the Republic, faithful to his temperament of "master of the clocks", took his time to choose the personality who was going to lead the government team, Emmanuel Macron hinted in recent weeks to his interlocutors that he wanted install a woman in this position.
The exit of Brigitte Macron in favor of Elisabeth Borne is all the more noticed as the word of the first lady is rare in the media.
His last intervention dates back to April 24, the evening of Emmanuel Macron's victory.
Also on TF1, the wife of the Head of State had shared
the “tremendous honor”
she felt.
“I'm going to do what I've done for five years.
That is to say, to respond to the French who write to me, to continue with the Fondation des Hôpitaux, to continue to give courses and to intensify the fight against harassment
”
,
had indicated the one who is president of the Fondation des Hôpitaux de Paris / French hospitals.
