Elisabeth Borne increasingly challenged within the majority

All you have to do is pick up your phone, chat for a few minutes with deputies, with early supporters of Emmanuel Macron to realize it: Elisabeth Borne’s plan to “expand the majority” does not convince. While opponents of the pension reform have an appointment in the street, Tuesday, March 28, on the occasion of a 10th day of mobilization, the Prime Minister continues her consultations with the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate.

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“Not that Borne is unworthy”, takes care to specify a tenor on condition of anonymity, “but we need someone capable of running the shop”. Translation: part of the majority is crying out for a more political Prime Minister to turn the page on pensions. “There is danger in delay”, dares another, who even speaks of “the deflagrating effect” of 49.3 and fears that the executive will be condemned to a clean sheet.

“Bumping around won’t be enough for him”

Tongues have been loosened since reported remarks by the Head of State leaked into Point. According to the magazine, Emmanuel Macron would have complained to those around him. “You didn’t want Catherine Vautrin, you sold me Elisabeth Borne as the rare pearl, and here we are!” Words that have never been confirmed, but which make part of the majority say that Elisabeth Borne is not able to take up the gauntlet and that she no longer has the cards in hand as to his future.

Yet it is Elisabeth Borne who plays the fuses in the front line. It was she who was charged by Emmanuel Macron with blackening the reform agenda, resuming her consultations to find allies. And to offer a method contract in three weeks, as if his future at Matignon depended on it. “Rounding his back will not be enough for him”, loose a tenor of the majority.

street pressure

The day will still be very long for her this Tuesday: breakfast of the majority to start, Council of Ministers in stride, then will come the questions to the government probably very lively in the National Assembly in the afternoon. The Prime Minister will have an eye on the processions with the risk of new excesses in Paris.

This Tuesday evening, she resumes the thread of her consultations with the presidents of the two chambers Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher. And always this nagging question and without solution for the moment: how to govern from now on?