French press review
On the front page: Borne, the truth if the Nupes is lying
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French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
(Illustration) RFI / Pierre René-Worms
By: Norbert Navarro
4 mins
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Elisabeth Borne does not want to "
lie to the French
", who should not believe in retirement at 60.
But for the Prime Minister, retirement at 65 is "
not a totem
".
In an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
, the head of government insists on the need to finance the French social model.
"
To announce to the French that they will work less, to brandish retirement at 60, is to lie to them
," said Elisabeth Borne to the
JDD
, noting that we find said retirement at 60 in the Nupes program.
It is “
not credible,
believes the Prime Minister.
Promises like "
tomorrow, we shave for free
", "
the French don't believe it.
Me, I will not lie to them
, ”assures Elisabeth Borne in
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
Victory of the left "possible" for nearly 6 out of 10 French people
The French don't believe it?
Exactly.
A victory for the Nupes in the legislative elections next month, they believe in it... According to an Ipsos poll for
Le Parisien Dimanche
, 57% of French people consider it "
possible that the left will win a majority in the National Assembly
", against 43% who believe opposite.
Among left-wing supporters, they are even between 2 out of 3 and 3 out of 4 (depending on whether they see themselves as rebellious, socialists, ecologists or communists) to believe in a victory for the New Popular Ecological and Social Union.
For 38% of French people, it is La France insoumise which best embodies "
the opposition to Emmanuel Macron and his government
“, and 51% of French people think that it is its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is the main personality, points
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
Bollard burned
The scene is therefore now well set for the battle of the legislative elections.
However, in the press, Elisabeth Borne leaves with a disability.
Elisabeth Borne "
does not exist
", launches the front page of
Marianne
!
it is there “
only by default,
lumberjack this weekly.
His choice to replace Jean Castex at Matignon “was necessary” when “nothing else was possible
”, estimates
Marianne
.
According to
L'Express
, Emmanuel Macron was looking for an "
Alain Juppé with a wig
".
Elisabeth Borne in Matignon?
For the weekly
L'Obs
, it is the consecration of a "feminine monk-soldier".
Moreover, this week on newsstands, the new Prime Minister is only entitled to the front page of the weekly
Le Point
.
She herself hardly believed in her appointment, reports this magazine.
"
Elisabeth Borne thought until the end that she would not be chosen,
" he says.
Back from the last Council of Ministers, she told her collaborators.
“
Given the new method he wants to deploy, I feel that Emmanuel Macron will choose a local elected representative, on the ground
”.
Morne Borne
But chosen, it was finally she who was chosen.
And
Le Point
underlines it, “
this senior civil servant (…) little known to the French, corresponds well to the moment.
Emmanuel Macron had warned: in these troubled times where crises overlap, the time is neither for the party nor for the merry men.
Elisabeth Borne is precisely preceded in Macronie by a reputation as a performer as serious as it is austere.
»
A pillar of macronie fears that she will "
scare away voters
", because, he says to
Point
, she is "
cold as an ice cube and lacks empathy
".
“
This divorced mother (…) prefers to work on files than to harangue the crowds
”, further states
Le Point
.
“
It will however have to impose itself in a renewed hemicycle where the Insoumis and the representatives of the RN should be much more numerous to scrap against the government.
“The level is a notch below Castex
, plague a prominent minister in
Le Point
.
He had political reflexes and an ease that she does not have.
She still reads her files during questions to the government.
“
Barely named, already mocked…
”.
Kylian Mbappé returns to PSG
He, on the other hand, is praised by the press.
"
He
" is the footballer Kylian Mbappé, who will stay three more years at PSG.
End of suspense, the PSG striker has decided: he remains in Paris.
And the newspaper
L'Equipe
salutes "
the non-transfer of the century
"!
Something to delight the new Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who told
L'Equipe
her "
eagerness
" to see Kylian Mbappé "
wear our colors at the Paris 2024 Games
".
Cock-a-doodle Doo !..
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