Elisabeth Borne, a Prime Minister of the third type


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CHRONIC. Its function is unlike that of its predecessors. And sometimes leads Elisabeth Borne to play with Macronian fire.




By Michael Richard

Unlike her two predecessors, Elisabeth Borne is obliged to work to win parliamentary majorities from political groups.
Unlike her two predecessors, Elisabeth Borne is obliged to work to wrest parliamentary majorities from political groups.
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QWhen the President of the Republic, according to custom, decorates his Prime Minister with the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit after six months in office, which he did this Thursday with Elisabeth Borne, the microcosm benefits from it to wonder which of his prime ministers (Édouard Philippe, Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne) Emmanuel Macron prefers.

To listen to what he suggests, it is Jean Castex who wins the prize, and not only because he would have been more flexible than Édouard Philippe. But the competition, in addition to being premature, is biased.

READ ALSOMacron decorates Castex: “You have never cheated” First of all, of course, Elisabeth Borne is not done with her role. Above all, its function does not resemble that of its predecessors. They had…


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