Elisabeth Borne promised Friday before the parliamentarians of Horizons, the allied party of Edouard Philippe, to “stay the course” set by Emmanuel Macron and to “move forward together” with the different components of the majority.
“Yes, the country is moving forward. Yes, our method works. So, with you, in the National Assembly as in the Senate, we are not going to vary, we are not going to flinch. We will continue,” declared the Prime Minister in front of elected officials and Horizons activists gathered in Angers.
“We are going to stay the course, that of the President of the Republic’s project.” “Staying the course means continuing to act on our priorities”, “pursuing the policy of supply” on an economic level, “investing wherever necessary” in schools and health, security or the ecological transition, and “demonstrate responsibility” in budgetary matters to “bring France below the 3% deficit by 2027”, she explained.
Borne commits to preserving unity with Horizons, MoDem and Renaissance
The head of government once again advocated “the unity” of the three components of the majority, Horizons, MoDem and Renaissance, which she successively met this week. She promised to do “everything possible to preserve it”, while differences emerge on certain bills such as that on immigration.
Senator Claude Malhuret described as a “major political mistake” the platform co-signed by elected officials from the left and the majority to preserve the integration aspect of the text on immigration. “When we move forward together, anything is possible. When we face together, we can overcome everything,” underlined Elisabeth Borne, recalling that “it was together that we campaigned” for Emmanuel Macron and “were elected”.
The Prime Minister nevertheless promised “respect for everyone’s sensitivities”. “Everyone must be able to weigh in and make their voice heard. I care about it. I will see to it,” she said after a 2022-23 parliamentary session marked by tensions between Horizons and the presidential Renaissance party.
She also praised the “capacity (of the majority) to come together” to “face the screams and insults” of the opposition in the hemicycle. As before Renaissance, she defended Europe, “our common fight”, and assured that “we are not going to let it happen (the populists)” who “are rising and threatening this Europe”.
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