The day after an 11th day of mobilization against the pension reform and a week before the decision of the Elders, Elisabeth Borne goes to Aveyron. “It’s important that we move, it feels good to get some fresh air and see people,” says those around him.
After the 11th day of mobilization against the pension reform on Thursday April 6, which brought together 570,000 demonstrators according to the Ministry of the Interior and nearly two million according to the unions, the countdown has started. D-one week before the decision of the Constitutional Council on the text. Thursday, April 6, in the evening, the inter-union announced a new day of action and mobilization, the 12th, which will take place the day before, April 13. This will be the last round to put pressure on the government, which has not decided to back down or let go of the ballast on the 64-year-old.
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In the meantime, the executive is trying to act as if political life was continuing at a completely normal pace. To her visitors at the time, Elisabeth Borne always tells the same anecdote: last weekend, in her constituency of Calvados, she found on her way two French people who agreed with the pension reform, hardly believable, at the time of crisis. It’s a breath of fresh air, as the government seems paralyzed, hanging on the lips of the Elders, hanging on the decision of the Constitutional Council. He will be the last resort of opponents and, at the same time, the only credible justice of the peace in the eyes of the executive, after the trauma of 49-3.
No question of opening the end-of-life site
The date of April 14 is therefore highlighted in large, bold, in all the diaries. The government cherishes the hope that after validation of its reform, the unions will have the greatest difficulty in reboosting a movement which is therefore showing the first signs of fatigue. Until then, charge the Prime Minister to occupy the land, with a visit to a medical office and then to a hospital on Friday. Elisabeth Borne travels to Aveyron. “It’s important that we movecoward bravado his entourage. It feels good to get some fresh air and see people”. Translation: try to act as if nothing had happened.
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Elisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron: officially, the team is still holding strong, but for how long? No adviser either at Matignon or at the Élysée is able to say whether the president and the Prime Minister have spoken to each other in recent hours. When Emmanuel Macron ends his visit to Canton in southern China on Friday, Élisabeth Borne barely raises her nose from her copy, like a good student. April 14 is also the deadline for submitting his roadmap to the Head of State. There is still a week left to kill time, complete his famous consultations and the opportunity for a last lap. Marine Le Pen for the National Rally, the big winner of the crisis according to the polls, and the associations of local elected officials are expected Tuesday and Wednesday in her office, in Matignon, after the Easter weekend, which should bring down the pressure.
His survival is played out next week
The Prime Minister has one more week to cobble together a reform agenda. With a smile, Elisabeth Borne says she understands: there is no question of opening the site of old age and the end of life, after that of retirement. “However, the media must talk about other things”plague an adviser.
If many fear that the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron will smash on the pension reform, the survival of Élisabeth Borne at Matignon will be played out next week.