In his declaration of general policy, pronounced Wednesday before the deputies, the Prime Minister defended the presidential program of Emmanuel Macron while inviting the opposition to the compromise, but without engaging the confidence of his government.
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Often, he had to raise his voice to cover the hoots with partly hostile assistance. By climbing to the gallery of the National Assembly, Wednesday, July 6, to state her declaration of general policy, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, knew that no leniency would be granted to him. Her remarks, she suspected, would be covered by as many invective as the vasts of her supporters would hardly manage to compensate.
At the head of a relative majority, the sixty -something man ignored that he should face the resentment of an opposition which felt despised during the previous five years. She had prepared for it. For this, no doubt, the tenant of Matignon did not try on Wednesday to convince the parliamentarians. Pain lost at this stage. The government’s heading wanted to defend itself. And win. Did she get there? The future will say.
But after just over an hour of a remarks focused on the repetition of the presidential program of Emmanuel Macron, enamelled with rare announcements, like the upcoming nationalization of the electrician EDF, the former Prefect, engineer, suddenly forgot the “we” to switch to “I”.
In a feminist and personal tirade, the woman who is said to be robotic and cold, “techno” and severe, suspected within her camp not to be up to the task, left her moments for a few moments shell to indulge in confidence. “If I am here before you, Prime Minister of France, I owe it to the Republic. It was she who stretched my hand (…) when I was this child whose father was never really Revenue from the camps, “she explained without being capsized by emotion. A reference to his career as a child abused by life. Raised by a single mother following the suicide of her father survivor of Auschwitz, when she was 11 years old, Elisabeth Borne was erected as a pupil of the nation.
So yes, “I may not correspond to the robot portrait that some were waiting. That’s good, the situation is unprecedented. I do not have the complex of the providential woman. I was an engineer, woman of business, prefect, minister. My career followed only a common thread: serving, “she said before paying, hands on the hips, a tribute supported to the Republic and women who, Like her, had to fight to impose herself in politics: Irene Joliot-Curie, Suzanne Lacore, Cécile Brunschvicg, Simone Veil or Edith Cresson, the first woman Prime Minister.
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