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Guest on franceinfo Tuesday, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister for the Ecological Transition, recalls that it is only the second time in the history of the Republic that a woman has been appointed Prime Minister and the first time that another has reached the Perchoir of the Assembly national.
“We are living a historic moment in terms of feminization”, declared the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, on Tuesday July 5 on franceinfo, in response to criticism from the opposition on the composition of the new government. If it is indeed equal, women are overrepresented in the posts of Secretaries of State, which makes Senator Les Républicains (LR) Dominique Estrosi-Sassone say that it is“a facade parity”. “Have you noticed that Minister is a function of men but Secretary of State a function of women?”thus denounced, for her part, the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) Ségolène Amiot.
“A president in the National Assembly, that has never been seen in the French Republic”, argued the minister. The walker Yaël Braun-Pivet indeed became president of the institution on Tuesday, June 28. Another sign that“we evolve in our society“, according to her: the election of a woman, Aurore Bergé, at the head of the Renaissance group in the Assembly. “It has never been seen in the French Republic”, she pointed out. It is also “the second time in the history of the French Republic” that a woman, in this case Elisabeth Borne, is Prime Minister, she recalled. To hear it, “This development was notably driven by the President of the Republic”.
“We have a joint government with female entrants”insisted Agnès Pannier-Runacher. “When you enter government, you generally start as secretary of state and deputy minister, which then allows you to take on more responsibilities”she justified.