In the press - Elisabeth Borne Prime Minister: "Strange that this is still an event in 2022"

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On the front page of the press, the appointment, in France, of Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister.

The appointment of a woman to Matignon, the second to lead the government, 30 years after Edith Cresson, excites

.

"It's her!": the newspaper evokes "a strong symbol", "the correction of an anomaly" French, while "most countries in the world are indifferently led by women or men".

The newspaper cites Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and even Estonia, whose governments are led by women, but also the European authorities, with Ursula von der Leyen at the head of the Commission, and Roberta Metsola in Parliament.

A woman at Matignon.

find it "strange that this is still an event in 2022, when Angela Merkel was Chancellor for 16 years and Theresa May occupied 10 Downing Street, after Margaret Thatcher".

For the newspaper, the "positive discrimination" from which Elisabeth Borne would have benefited would be secondary, because "no one can question his skills".

“A good connoisseur of environmental issues, renowned as much for her capacity for work as for her rigor”: “In 2022, the real event would be that this was not one.

Or, to put it another way, that we admit that Elisabeth Borne was appointed solely for her professional and political qualities”, also comments

.

The appointment of Elisabeth Borne is perceived by the right as a sign sent by Emmanuel Macron… to the left.

notes that, unlike her two predecessors, Elisabeth Borne is "from the left" - from the left of macronie, in any case, which would have been "ultra-mobilized to torpedo the candidacy of a woman from right or center.

Elisabeth Borne, found in Kak's drawing, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The boss of the "Rebellious", who hopes to win the legislative elections next month and end up in Matignon, ironically: "It's nice to act in the interim until the legislative elections".

Elisabeth Borne, a "techno", never elected, from the left:  

also returns to the outcry, within the majority, against the possible choice of the former minister of Jacques Chirac, Catherine Vautrin - an episode which would accredit the idea that Emmanuel Macron would have been "forced to review his plans in extremis” and would give “the regrettable impression of a choice by default”.

On the left, the appointment of Elisabeth Borne is perceived as a new sign sent… to the right.

“From Jean Castex to Elisabeth Borne: the same thing”:

considers the arrival at Matignon of the former Minister of Transport "as a political non-event, in the sense that it does not sign any break with the previous five-year term, neither on the ecological level nor on the social level".

Emmanuel Macron "is clearly finished with the disruptive", analyzes Libé, who however sees in the "techno profile" of Elisabeth Borne a possible "advantage for the function of Prime Minister in charge of ecological planning", the new tenant of Matignon knowing by heart the state apparatus and therefore its "potential inertia".

The former Minister of Transport at the origin of the reforms of the SNCF, also reformed unemployment insurance, as Minister of Labor - feats of arms which earned her the hostility of

.

“Social damage to Matignon”, predicts the newspaper.

“We take the same ones, and we start again: L'Huma says not to expect a surprise “at the end of the game of musical chairs inside the executive”.

Like the

, the foreign press points out that this appointment of a woman to Matignon is a first for 30 years.

is delighted to finally see “a crack in the French glass ceiling” appear and notes that France “still lags behind parity at the highest peaks of the State, while it is considered progressive in the world work".

The Swiss daily quotes former Prime Minister Edith Cresson: “It's not the country that is macho, it's its political class”.

is much more critical: “No big step forward, no historic moment.

There is above all a president who wishes to hold the rudder of power in his own hands with at his side a perfect executor, faithful, loyal ”.

For the Belgian daily, "seen from the women's cause", it would even be almost a "caricature": "In our time, appointing a woman to a leading position to be exploited there does a very bad service to the fight against the famous glass ceiling”, stings the newspaper.

The foreign press is also divided on the meaning of the political message sent by Emmanuel Macron.

, which presents Elisabeth Borne as a follower of the "low profile", sees in her appointment a hand extended by Emmanuel Macron to left-wing voters, whose support will be necessary for him to "control" the National Assembly.

rather speaks of a search for "unity" on the part of Emmanuel Macron, whose newspaper thus describes the distribution of tasks with Elisabeth Borne, to which falls the "ungrateful role" of Prime Minister - a specificity well French, according to the British daily: "When things go well, the president receives the applause, and when things go wrong, the Prime Minister takes responsibility, allowing the Head of State to gain height".

In other words, to remain “Jupiterian”.

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