Arthur de Laborde, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP 07:42, June 01, 2023
"I stay," said the Prime Minister in the columns of "West France" this Thursday morning. Elisabeth Borne does not intend to give up her place and relativizes the dispute that opposes her to the President of the Republic after his remarks on the National Rally, "heir of Pétain".Emmanuel Macron assured Wednesday that Elisabeth Borne had all his "confidence", the day after a statement that appeared as a reframing of his Prime Minister on how to counter the National Rally. In the columns of Ouest France, the Prime Minister said this Thursday morning to stay in Matignon. Nevertheless, the head of government appears weakened.
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Elisabeth Borne weakened
Elisabeth Borne "was already struggling to hold her troops and the latest humiliation in the council of ministers will further weaken her," says a pillar of Macronia. "There is no longer really a framework, the bungling is multiplying, the 100 days and the resulting uncertainty push ministers to play their personal cards," summarizes a heavyweight of the government.
The latest illustration to date, the blunder on the merger between the identity card and the Carte Vitale. The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal announced it at the beginning of the week immediately provoking the anger of his colleague of the interior Gérald Darmanin whose entourage ensures that he had not been informed.
A departure from Matignon after July 14?
To restore order, many executives of the presidential camp plead for a departure of Elisabeth Borne after July 14 or after the senatorial elections at the end of September. But others think that she will still stay at Matignon "if the President humiliates his Prime Minister, it means that he will keep her," predicts an adviser to the executive.