Here is at least one subject settled: Elisabeth Borne will remain at Matignon.
Its maintenance has a triple explanation: personal, political and institutional.
On a personal level, Emmanuel Macron may repeat regularly that he is ready to change his methods, to be less vertical and to take into account the opinions of others, he hates nothing so much as denying himself.
Elisabeth Borne is his choice - even if it is only a second choice after the failure of the Catherine Vautrin operation - to change Prime Minister would be to admit having made a mistake.
To dismiss a woman more quickly than Edith Cresson had been would also be put at her expense, including perhaps on the part of those who today demand her replacement.
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Elisabeth Borne clings to Matignon
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The coalition, I do not believe in it
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