The Prime Minister intends to move forward on the priorities set by President Emmanuel Macron at the first Council of Ministers on Monday, despite the reserve period before the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 and the Ascension Bridge.
The Head of State recalled the three "priorities" - education, health, ecology, and the "urgency" of purchasing power.
This meeting comes as accusations of rape against the new minister Damien Abad have plagued the beginnings of the Borne government.
The new team also seemed to fluctuate on the arrival of the package of measures to deal with inflation, while the subject of purchasing power is the crux of the legislative elections on June 12 and 19.
The government, through its spokesperson Olivia Grégoire, put forward the idea on Monday of a "first bill (...) adopted by the Council of Ministers before the legislative elections".
A calendar on which it was necessary to backpedal and provide details.
It will finally be two bills - one relating to the measures, the other on their financing - which will be presented after the legislative elections, the executive confining itself to a simple "communication" in the Council of Ministers before the ballot.
But, reserve period obliges, "there will be no precise amount" revealed, according to a government source, but only "the philosophy, the modalities" of the measures.
Elisabeth Borne has already received bilaterally all the social partners, including the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger on Tuesday, while the unions are upwind against the pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron.
“We are going to temporize. Because there is the new method of consultation, I am not sure that it will be done right away”, slipped a minister on Wednesday.
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