The choice of this 61 -year -old polytechnician, member of the government since 2017 and who becomes the second woman Prime Minister under the Fifth Republic, is also the affirmation of a willingness of continuity on the part of the Head of the State .
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He finally decided. Twenty-two days after his re-election, Sunday April 24, in the second round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron ended the suspense: he appointed Elisabeth Borne Prime Minister, replacing Jean Castex, announced the Elysée, Monday, May 16, in a lapidary press release.
In charge of this 61 -year -old woman, who has been a member of the government without discontinuity since 2017, to “form a government”, the Head of State first chose a profile of “Swiss knife”, After those around him. As an ex-minister of transport, work and ecological transition, Elisabeth Borne corresponds to the post sheet drawn by Mr. Macron, who had said to be looking for a head of government “attached to the social question , to the environmental question and the productive question “.
The faithful of the President of the Republic praise the choice of a “loyal” personality, likely to send a message to the left electorate, from which she came – she notably worked as a technical advisor in the cabinet of The former socialist minister, Lionel Jospin, when he was in Matignon – and whose moderate profile would not be likely to scare the right.
Image of modernity
Monday evening, during the passing of power with Mr. Castex, on the Perron of Matignon, she also made a short speech, very consensual, saying “sharing the conviction that public policies must be built in the Dialogue “with intermediate bodies. Before saying ourselves “attached to the general interest, the cohesion of our country and equal opportunities”. Dedicating her appointment “to all little girls”, Elisabeth Borne paid tribute to Edith Cresson. Thirty -one years later, she becomes the second woman to access Matignon under the V e Republic. A choice of nature to return an image of modernity, as Mr. Macron wished, regularly accused of governing with a “boys club”.
Presented as a “hard worker”, who knows the workings of the state well, this polytechnician is considered able to implement complicated reforms, as she was able to do during the previous five -year term, especially at the Ministry of Labor, with that of unemployment insurance. A controversial measure, which today earned him strong criticism from Mr. Macron’s opponents. By choosing it, the head of state “continues his” social rampage “policy, denounced the leader of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, while that of Insoumise France (LFI), John Jean -Luc Mélenchon, castigated the appointment of a “figure” among “the hardest of social mistreatment”.
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