The Prime Minister came first in her constituency of Calvados, but she called her troops to “humility” and “mobilization”, while the fate of her camp is uncertain.
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Like Emmanuel Macron, Elisabeth Borne likes to do things “in order”. On the evening of the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12, it is therefore by thanks to “personal basis” to voters of the 6 e district of Calvados that the Prime Minister, methodical, started his speech. From the Parisian headquarters of the Presidential Party, La République en Marche (LRM), deserted that evening by the activists, the tenant of Matignon thus recalled that she had arrived at the top of the election where she plays her post as the number one Government and, more generally, its legitimacy of head of the majority.
Polytechnician, described by the representative of the extreme right, Marine Le Pen, as “a cold and brutal technocrat”, and by the leader of the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Like “a heartless technocratic prime minister without human compassion”, rubs his political career for the first time at the verdict of the ballot boxes.
Is it to have relentlessly surveyed the Norman communal flea markets, markets and festivals during the past month? This Parisian, daughter of a Calvados pharmacist, obtained 34.32 % of the votes, against 24.53 % for Noah Gauchard, her opponent of the Nuts. A sufficient lead to augur a victory in the second round on June 19. But not enough to pop.
“A woman on the left”
And, according to the line defined by the Head of State, calling for his troops on Sunday to “humility” and “mobilization”, Elisabeth Borne has left aside all triumphalism to call macronie and her allies in combat . A fight against abstention and against “the extremes”, where the extreme right in its words, embodied by the candidates of the National Rally (RN), and the left, represented by the “rebellious” candidates, ecologists and socialists, gathered under the banner of the Nuts. Faced with these adversaries, according to her, accused of endangering the values of freedom, equality, fraternity and secularism, “we will not give in,” said the Prime Minister, who claims to be “a Woman on the left “.
Certainly, Elisabeth Borne did not lift her fist, as Jean-Luc Mélenchon did on Sunday, who called on his troops to “swap”. But after seeing the weapon in the foot in the face of opposition attacks, the Prime Minister, now, retaliated. The fate of his camp is, in fact, uncertain. Beyond the future of the presidential majority, fifteen ministers play their mandate and their credibility. In the event of a defeat, they will be forced to leave the government. If all were qualified for the second round, most will face representatives of the RN but also of the Nuts, in fights at the uncertain outcome.
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