The path of compromise

Les Echos

Giving meaning to the word compromise

Le Parisien

 Elizabeth Borne calls for 'building compromises' 

Ouest France

Borne plays the compromise

La Provence

The compromise?

Chick! 

Liberation

 the essential message of this general policy discourse is contained in this sentence: 'Give meaning, a virtue, to the word compromise'.

The B side of this message sent to the opposition: 'disorder, instability are not an option'.

Elisabeth Borne, backed by a relative majority,

Liberation, could not promote anything other than this 'new practice of dialogue', could not present herself other than as a 'tireless builder' of project majorities.

A true conviction shared with the Head of State and his entire government? 

Real personal talent to implement it in the face of determined opposition?

Elisabeth Borne will very quickly be at the foot of this wall.

“Chiche”, replies the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who also warns that he does not see the need for a pension reform.

The Prime Minister thinks the opposite.

The art of compromise will no doubt be an uphill battle. 

Le Figaro

overcame, without being damaged, the thorny obstacle of general policy discourse.

(…) The spirit of geometry prevailed over the power of words, the catalog of measures over the contours of the grand design, the concern for efficiency over the ripple effect.

Technical, precise, tenacious: that's the Borne touch.

(…) There remains an anecdotal problem,

Le Figaro: all this is not free.

How to finance these new police officers, these prison places, these cheques, bonuses, and aid of all kinds, knowing that Elisabeth Borne refrains from raising taxes, from increasing the debt, but that we are looking in vain for the slightest hint of savings?

Le Figaro

 apart from this small financial detail, his speech paved with good intentions would satisfy all of France.

However, words should be given the power to transform reality.

La Croix

 Élisabeth Borne has presented an ambitious roadmap, up to the immense challenges facing the country.

We can't blame him for that: we might as well aim high, because no one knows what will remain of this ambition once it has passed through the mill of the parliamentary compromise.

'The time is not to count us, but to talk to us',

to justify the refusal to submit to a vote of confidence.

The formula was valid for the first day.

Because today, no more dodging possible,

La Croix: if this government intends to apply the project unveiled yesterday, it has no choice but to learn to speak and count... at the same time. 

 He may have lost the confidence of a large part of his parliamentary group, cashed in less than twenty-four hours the resignation of nearly fifty ministers, secretaries of state and parliamentary assistants - an absolute record for a British leader - , Boris Johnson stubbornly refused to leave Downing Street yesterday, letting relatives say that he was “combative” and that he would resist “until the end” calls for resignation.

Even if it means plunging the Conservative Party into a deep crisis and leaving the United Kingdom with a bloodless government, surrounded by rebels and unable to act. 

The most likely scenario,

Liberation, would be a vote of no confidence in the Conservative Party.

This solution is preferred by the majority, insofar as it allows it to retain power, without going through new elections.

 for the time being, the polls are predicting a Labor victory.