Elisabeth Borne refused, Thursday, May 19, to undergo any "pressure" to form her government and assured that it would take "the time" it would take to have "the best team".

"We are not going to put pressure on ourselves to decide there, right away, now. We want the best team", declared Elisabeth Borne during her first trip as Prime Minister to Les Mureaux (Yvelines), three days after her appointment.

"We will take the time it takes to have the best team," she added to the press.

"Obviously, we are not hanging around. I can assure you that we are working on it very closely," insisted the Prime Minister, who again went to the Elysée on Thursday morning to deal with the president. Macron his future government.

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The Head of State was also questioned on the subject on the sidelines of the visit to the Elysee Palace by his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu: "The work continues but it is not a light thing", the constitution of a government "requires time, substantive exchanges (...), because it is the government of France", he said.

In this suburb of Yvelines, where Emmanuel Macron gave an important speech in the fall of 2020 on Islamist separatism but also on the "promises of emancipation" of the Republic, Élisabeth Borne dedicated her first field visit to a meeting with associations working in favor of equal opportunities and the integration of women, stressing that this would also be a great cause of Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term.

"I owe everything to the Republic and to our country"

In line with Monday's transfer of power with Jean Castex, during which she had dedicated her appointment "to all the little girls", Élisabeth Borne encouraged the young girls encountered to know how to "dream" and have "confidence in themselves ", and returned to her own "difficult course of life".

"In the end, I owe everything to the Republic and to our country and so that's why it's close to my heart, this chance that we can have in our country to realize our dreams (..) despite the fact that we does not have the networks, that we do not have the codes and that we may not have had the right address", underlined the Prime Minister, whose father, a former deportee, had given himself death when she was only 11 years old.

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Exchanging in turn with high school girls, students or young entrepreneurs, Élisabeth Borne thus hammered at them: “The starting point is to have a dream and to have self-confidence. And above all you should not listen to those who tell you: 'This job or this path is not for you.'"

Beyond the motivational messages, she also took the opportunity to be ironic about the insurance of men in the professional world … while inviting not to make the link with the formation of his government.

"Every time I had to recruit people (...), without reference to current events, you are quite surprised to see that there are gentlemen who tell you 'I have absolutely no problem , I'm the one you're looking for', and you say, 'It didn't jump out at me,'" she laughed.

"And then you have women to whom you have to say 'Really, you are the right person' and who tell you 'Oh no, frankly, I miss a lot of things'", she lamented.

With AFP

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