The Prime Minister, candidate in the 6th district of Calvados (Normandy), will face the candidate of the Nuts in the second round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 19.
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It was a first for Elisabeth Borne. The Prime Minister had never presented herself to the votes of the French until Sunday, June 12, on the occasion of the first round of the legislative elections. M me bound is, ultimately, in the 6
Originally from Livarot, she defended herself during the legislative campaign to be parachuted where the Republic En Marche had obtained one of its best results in 2017 with Alain Tourret, outgoing deputy who does not represent himself. She notably faced a young person invested by the new ecological and social popular union, Noé Gauchard, and a candidate of the National Rally, Jean-Philippe Roy. In the first round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron had come first, with 30.8 %, votes in the 6 e district of Calvados.
baptism of fire
Only woman to occupy such responsibility under the V e Republic since the ephemeral passage of Edith Cresson in 1991-1992, this 61-year-old polytechnician is a woman of files, but also a ” Techno “assumed, without political weight so far. Former counselor of Lionel Jospin, especially during the passage of the latter to Matignon, and ex-director of the Cabinet of Ségolène Royal to the Ministry of the Environment, the sixties are a member of the Republic En Marche and the Microparti Territories of Progress, located on the left side of the majority.
Named Minister of Transport from the election of Emmanuel Macron, in 2017, the engineer of bridges and roads was promoted two years later to the ecological transition, before obtaining, in 2020, the portfolio of labor . In Matignon, M terminal will be responsible for ecological planning, preservation of purchasing power, the search for full employment, pension reform, without forgetting those of education and health.
Barely named, Elisabeth Borne had received her baptism of fire under the criticisms nourished by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen, seeing her as the incarnation of “social mistreatment” and “social ransack”, allusion to the unemployment insurance reform that she led against the advice of unions.