Unlike her two predecessors, the new Prime Minister is supposed to embody, by her career, social-liberalism. An anchoring on the left which must allow the party of the head of state to respond to the threat represented by the Union around “rebellious”.
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During the presidential campaign, the oldest traveling companions of Emmanuel Macron exclaimed when asked if the Prime Minister of the new five -year period was again to be a symbolic war caught, like Edouard Philippe and Jean Castex. “I am against, warned a close collaborator of the Head of State. It was part of the strategy of fracture the right.” The latter having been shot in the first round of the presidential election, the time would have come to find the original paths of macronism; Those of a social-liberalism capable of repositioning your herald in the center left, or at the very least to find a point of balance which does not make it switch completely to the right.
This is the message that the tenant of the Elysée tries to convey through the appointment of Elisabeth Borne in Matignon, Monday May 16, one month of legislative elections where the main threat for the troops of the Majority is… on the left, with the alliance of “rebellious”, environmentalists, socialists and communists around Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The new Prime Minister, if she has never joined the Socialist Party (PS), has worked for many years with the flagship personalities of this camp, such as Lionel Jospin or Ségolène Royal. She is a member of the Republic En Marche (LRM) and at the same time of territories of progress, a microparti which claims to be the social-democratic wing of the majority. However, the old prefect of Poitou-Charentes cannot boast, at 61, the slightest electoral experience. What to put the political weight of the appointment of a woman who has no stable at her disposal. 2> a clear roadmap
In order to ensure legitimacy, M me terminal recalled, during the meeting of macronist deputies on Tuesday that she will be well candidate for the legislative elections, on June 12 and 19, in The 6 e district of Calvados. An a priori favorable territory, where Emmanuel Macron obtained more than 30 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, far ahead of Mr. Mélenchon (17.65 %). “I am also in the campaign, I say it, I continue this campaign. We will campaign together,” she assured parliamentarians, in order to obtain “the widest possible majority”, which will allow the appliation “Clear and ambitious program” of the President of the Republic.
But it is especially by the agenda of his first weeks at the head of the government that the former Minister of Labor can print the mark of a reorientation of macronism. The Head of State took place his roadmap in a message on social networks: “Ecology, health, education, full employment, democratic rebirth, Europe and security”. In order.
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