Elisabeth Borne in Calvados: the Prime Minister heckled on the ground

Jacques Serais 7:10 p.m., May 22, 2022, modified at 7:11 p.m., May 22, 2022

Freshly appointed Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne is making her first trip to Calvados, this weekend of May 21 and 22, 2022, since her appointment at Matignon on Monday May 16.

Candidate for the legislative elections, she must survey the 6th district (Vire-Evrecy), for two days, as part of the campaign.

The new Prime Minister was heckled on the ground as she visited the Thury-Harcourt garage sale this morning

"I think you're scared"

While distributing leaflets alongside her deputy, Elisabeth Borne finds herself face to face with an activist from Nupes, the new popular ecological and social union. 

"I think that if you came to Thury-Harcourt to the garage sale as Prime Minister, it's because you're afraid. You're afraid of losing and I'm very happy. But I don't blame you," launches the activist.

And if overall the welcome is rather warm for the new Prime Minister, a new tense exchange occurs under the lens of the cameras, after about thirty minutes of wandering. 

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"I don't like people who call me lazy when I started working at fourteen"

"I'm going to disappoint you, but I don't get my hands dirty. Yes, ma'am, because I like people who respect me. And not those who call me lazy when I started working at fourteen. years. The president, the one who presides over me, called me lazy, incapable of Gaul", he explains to the Prime Minister.  

An allusion to the words of Emmanuel Macron in 2018 on the refractory Gauls.

Elisabeth Borne knows that she will not convince this voter.

"I think we don't agree on the path," she replies.

For the others, she intends to return to her constituency every weekend until the legislative elections.