Arthur de Laborde, edited by Gauthier Delomez
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11:10 a.m., April 03, 2023
On the front line of the pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is not unanimous within her government. In private, some tongues are loosened to criticize the tenant of Matignon, who is not considered up to the situation.
On the evening of the tenth day of demonstration against the pension reform, Elisabeth Borne, already politically weakened, invited the unions to come to Matignon to try to resolve the pension crisis. This meeting is to take place this Wednesday, but if the head of government is on the front line, in private, some tongues are loosened to criticize the tenant of Matignon, who is not considered up to the situation. In reality, behind the scenes, an internal battle opposes the ministers.
There are those who, in the absence of another indisputable figure, support the head of government, considering that she embodies political overcoming, and then opposite, those who plead for a rightward movement, and who want to see her go . “The leftist” is the nickname given to Elisabeth Borne by a heavyweight minister in a joking tone.
“Stories of balanced budgets are not in his DNA”
“The step is too high, she will not get out of it”, predicts a heavyweight of the government who believes that Emmanuel Macron “will use it to the end before getting rid of it”. Another influential minister judges that the President of the Republic was mistaken in entrusting Elisabeth Borne with the mission of carrying out the pension reform.
“Stories of balanced budgets are not in his DNA,” he says, before regretting more broadly the accumulation of errors which, according to him, led to this impasse. “We had a bad presidential campaign. Then, a bad campaign for the legislative elections, and we are now paying for total democratic disorganization,” concludes this leading minister.