“She has to take care“, laughs a socialist executive. If iElisabeth Borne was scheduled to meet with the various presidents of the Assembly’s parliamentary groups at the beginning of next week, the schedule has accelerated. The Prime Minister finally started her meetings on Thursday June 23, 2022, and are due to continue until Friday evening.
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After the reception by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée in the middle of the week of the various oppositions in order to avoid the dreaded “institutional blockage”, Elisabeth Borne therefore continues to consult, this time on the telephone, diplomatically. But, behind the scenes, the tone is much less so: the opposition does not expect much. Thus, skeptical, Generation.S MP Sophie Taillé-Polian is skeptical: “We don’t understand what it’s for, especially since with Emmanuel Macron, it wasn’t very productive“.
Still on the side of Nupes, Eric Coquerel, of France Insoumise, also wonders: “She may be pretending to show that she is working while Macron is not there“. The Head of State is actually traveling abroad, during a sequence marked in particular by the war in Ukraine. “We know anyway that it is not at her place that it is decided“, concludes the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis. “She does what she should have done if the President had not totally eclipsed her by doing these consultations himself.“, analyzes the spokesman of the PS Pierre Jouvet. And to ask himself: “What more will she get that he didn’t get?
Only on the right do we find these meetings useful: “Macron becomes a naked king. It is the Head of Government who leads the coalitions in a parliamentary system, and that is where we are going“, theorizes the deputy LR Pierre-Henri Dumont, rather excited by this idea of different majority according to the proposed texts.
For her part, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Thursday evening on LCI not to “ask questions“as to her future at Matignon, despite calls for resignation from the opposition. Asked whether she would be”on borrowed time“, she answered: “I’m not asking myself these kinds of questions, I’m taking action“.