The tenant of Matignon between 1991 and 1992 also wishes “a lot of courage” to the future head of government, if a woman were to be appointed Prime Minister, in an interview published Sunday in the “JDD”.
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Will a woman be appointed to Matignon? Edith Cresson, the only one to have held the post of Prime Minister (between May 1991 and April 1992), wishes him “a lot of courage” and castigates the “machismo of the political class” French in an interview published on Sunday May 15 in the Sunday newspaper (article reserved for subscribers).
According to the former head of government, “It is not the country that is macho, it is its political class. These are the same attacks as today. people were commenting on my dress”says the former socialist leader.
“We even wrote one day that my stockings were spun when I have a scar on my leg from an accident!
Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister,at the JDD.
“The fact that only in France is the question” arises to appoint a woman to Matignon is “in my scandalous eyes”notes the former Prime Minister, who remained in this position for less than 11 months, during the second seven-year term of François Mitterrand.