Appointed Prime Minister to succeed Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne entered Matignon on Monday May 16, 2022. The opportunity to return to this drama which marked her childhood.
The French know their new Prime Minister. Because, after several weeks of doubt and waiting, Emmanuel Macron has not given up on appointing a woman to Matignon, despite the few refusals he would have received. Having passed through the Ministries of Transport, Ecological Transition and then Labor, Élisabeth Borne is therefore the first woman, since Édith Cresson in 1991, to become Prime Minister. Monday May 16, 2022, she thus succeeded Jean Castex following a transfer of power during which she dedicated her appointment “to all the little girls […] to tell them that nothing should stop the fight for the place of women in society”. And Elisabeth Borne knows something about it, she who has always worked a lot, especially to have her “financial autonomy”. A desire that was accentuated from an early age, after a drama that marked her a lot.
To the age of 11Elisabeth Borne is indeed become a ward of the nation After the death of his father. A status which is attributed in France to minor children whose one of the parents has been injured or killed during a war, a terrorist attack or while rendering certain public services. “It didn’t not always easy. I lost my father when I was very young, so we ended up with my mother, who had two daughters and who didn’t really have an income”she confided in May 2021 during her visit to C8 on the show One youth, one solution. She then explained that this status had enabled her to obtain a scholarship for her studies.
Elisabeth Borne “shocked” to lose her young father
Passed by a Polytechnic School, the minister had confided at the time that the disappearance of her father had weighed on her career, in particular in the choice of her subjects. “It’s a bit shocking to lose your father so young, and I found that maths was ultimately something quite reassuring, quite rational”, she confided. And to specify that her faculties in mathematics had pushed her to Polytechnique, then to the National School of Bridges and Roads, a renowned engineering school where few women were then enrolled. Now Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne intends to put parity in the spotlight, especially in her government, she who obviously had a thought “moved” for Edith Cresson when she was appointed to Matignon.