Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne estimated Monday that it was “more necessary than ever to continue reforms”, in her resignation letter given to Emmanuel Macron. “While I must present the resignation of my government, I wanted to tell you how passionate I was about this mission, guided by the constant concern, which we share, to achieve rapid and tangible results for our fellow citizens. “, wrote Elisabeth Borne, noting the “will” of the Head of State to “appoint a new Prime Minister”.
“Continue reforms in order to give everyone a chance and prospects”
Elisabeth Borne, who arrived around 6:00 p.m. at the Élysée for an interview with the president, had been in office since May 2022. Her Minister of Education Gabriel Attal is in pole position to replace her, according to several sources within the executive. The one who has been in all governments since 2017 believes in her resignation letter that it is “more necessary than ever to continue reforms in order to give opportunity and perspectives to everyone within the Republic and to build a stronger France and fairer in a more sovereign Europe”. The president must himself reveal his intentions in an enigmatic “meeting with the Nation” announced in January.
Elisabeth Borne, who had to face nearly thirty motions of censure and used article 49.3 of the Constitution 23 times, is also pleased to have had the financial texts adopted “in unprecedented conditions in Parliament, including pension reform, the law relating to immigration, and more than fifty laws which respond to the challenges of our country and the concerns of the French.
“Apart from financial texts, we were able to build project majorities in the spirit of overcoming your election in 2017”, underlines Elisabeth Borne, who had to deal for twenty months with a relative majority in the Assembly resulting from the legislative elections of June 2022. Elisabeth Borne also said she was “proud that France now has complete and robust ecological planning”, presented last September.