Elisabeth Borne is completing her political consultations this week. And she receives this Tuesday at Matignon Marine Le Pen… The editorial by Renaud Dély.
One thing is certain: the leader of the far right will not skip the meeting, unlike the parliamentary groups of Nupes. But Marine Le Pen wants to trivialize it. Like the left, she considers that everything is decided at the Elysée. She also demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister. Well, it’s quite a ritual with her.
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But the risk run by Elisabeth Borne at the end of this cycle of consultations, which ends tomorrow with the associations of local elected officials, is to appear more weakened and more isolated than ever. From the right, from the left, from everyone, or almost, she only suffered a succession of criticisms, reproaches, refusals.
Emmanuel Macron had however asked him to widen his majority. That in three weeks… for an impossible mission. It’s almost hazing. A bit like when in the army, in the past, an officer had fun asking a conscript to get the key to the shooting range… How to widen the majority when the LR group was largely lacking in the Assembly on the pensions? Impossible to sign a government contract with the right, it’s too late. And the left only manages to patch up its unity in anti-Macronism. As for the practice of individual poaching, it seems to have come to an end and “we don’t really have a sideline anymore”as a Renaissance parliamentarian said this weekend.
So what can Elisabeth Borne do?
The Prime Minister’s room for maneuver is very narrow and her fate is initially dependent on the decision of the Constitutional Council. If the Elders validate the essentials of the pension reform, that is to say the postponement of the legal age, she will go to see the Head of State to submit to him a work program and a method for six months. . Shorter, less divisive texts and the quest for a majority piecemeal. In short, continue more or less as before. Probably more slowly.
Elisabeth Borne speaks of a period of “convalescence“, others of “re-education” to recover from the storm of pensions. And this is where the Prime Minister risks running into a new pitfall, a certain Emmanuel Macron, who repeats to him that he has no intention of slowing down the pace reforms.