“An overwhelming assessment for the French”, points out PS boss Olivier Faure

On Monday, the Prime Minister submitted her resignation to Emmanuel Macron who accepted it.

Élisabeth Borne leaves “an unfortunately overwhelming assessment for the French”, reacted Monday January 8 on franceinfo Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, deputy for Seine-et-Marne, after the resignation of the Prime Minister. The MP points “an assessment with a pension reform to start, and then to complete an immigration law that the President of the Constitutional Council himself described as an amateur project”. He denounces “a rather grotesque situation” with “a reshuffle that no one expects”.

For Olivier Faure, “No one has any illusions. Whoever holds office at Matignon, it will be Jupiter who will decide at the Elysée”. He recalls that the Head of State announced “he’s been going to rework for weeks”. “And then Madame Borne is asked to resign. She resigns, She complies. And then nothing.” According to the boss of the PS, “there is probably a presidential decision which is linked to the clan war that ministers are waging within the government”. The appointment of the Prime Minister “is taking place against the backdrop of the war for succession of the head of state. This is what it is also about today.”

Élisabeth Borne’s record tainted by the adoption of the immigration law

Olivier Faure recognizes “endurance” to Élisabeth Borne. “She’s been resilient.” But he only sees her as “a collaborator”.

“I felt that, at certain times, she disagreed with what the Head of State asked of her. She did not want to take on the immigration law. And yet she did it. C It’s greatness and denials unfortunately.”

Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party

on franceinfo

Because for the boss of the PS, “the greatness of a man or a stateswoman is to know at a moment what their limits are. And the limits were largely crossed by Emmanuel Macron, who asked the Prime Minister, his government, at its majority, to deny itself on a subject on which it had nevertheless been elected and re-elected”. He recalls that the president had to “to be the man of the Republican dam, the man who faced Marine Le Pen. On the contrary, he was the one who opened the drawbridge and who unfortunately offered an ideological victory to Marine Le Pen. And that will remain a stain on Madame Borne’s balance sheet”.