Arthur de Laborde, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
“I’m staying,” said the Prime Minister in the columns of “Ouest France” this Thursday morning. Elisabeth Borne therefore has no intention of giving up her place and relativizes the dispute which opposes her to the President of the Republic after her remarks on the National Rally, “heir to Pétain”.
Emmanuel Macron assured Wednesday that Elisabeth Borne had all his “confidence”, the day after a statement which appeared as a reframing of his Prime Minister on how to counter the National Rally. In the columns of West France, the Prime Minister said this Thursday morning to stay in Matignon. Nevertheless, the head of government appears weakened.
Elisabeth Borne weakened
Elisabeth Borne “already had difficulty holding her troops and the last humiliation in the Council of Ministers will further weaken her”, estimates a pillar of the macronie. “There is no longer really a framework, the scrambles are multiplying, the 100 days and the resulting uncertainty are pushing the ministers to play their personal cards”, sums up a government heavyweight.
Latest illustration, the quack on the merger between the identity card and the Vitale card. The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal announced it at the start of the week, immediately provoking the anger of his interior colleague Gérald Darmanin, whose entourage ensures that he had not been informed.
A departure from Matignon after July 14?
To restore order, many executives in the presidential camp are pleading for Elisabeth Borne to leave after July 14 or after the senatorial elections at the end of September. But others think that she will still stay at Matignon “if the President humiliates his Prime Minister, that means he will keep her” predicts an executive adviser.