Friday July 1, 8:30 p.m., at the Élysée Palace.
A crackle of tires is heard on the white gravel of the presidential court.
Elisabeth Borne, files under her arm, rushes into her petrol blue Renault Espace.
The Prime Minister has just spent three hours with Emmanuel Macron to sweep away the urgent matters of the moment: the texts to be presented to the Council of Ministers (including the long-awaited package on purchasing power), outline the main lines that will frame the policy declaration general that it must – normally – pronounce on Wednesday, then assess the balance of power in the hemicycle to point out the possible allies on the right and on the left.
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