The Prime Minister, candidate in the 6ᵉ district of Calvados, in Normandy, is a winner of her duel against Noé Gauchard, candidate of the Nuts, during the second round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 19.
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This is a first for Elisabeth Borne. The Prime Minister had never been elected, it is now done on Sunday, June 19. M Me terminal came out of the second round of the legislative elections in the 6th district of Calvados, in the heart of the Norman bocage. Government’s heading totaled 52.3 % of the votes to the candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), Noé Gauchard, who brought together 47.7 %.
Political risk was not zero for the fifteen candidates, including the new host of Matignon, since, in the event of a defeat, unhappy candidates are forced to resign from the government.
Originally from Livarot, in the department, Elisabeth Borne defended herself during the legislative campaign to be parachuted where the Republic En Marche had obtained one of his best results in 2017 with Alain Tourret, outgoing deputy who did not imagine. In the first round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron had come first, with 30.8 % of the votes, in this constituency.
“Baptism of fire”
Only woman to occupy the function of government’s heads 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 an assumed “techno”, 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 and 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, who see her as the embodiment of “social mistreatment” and “social ransacking”, Allusion to the unemployment insurance reform that she led against the advice of unions.