French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne submitted her resignation on Monday, less than two years after accepting the presidency of the French government. According to the French press, the resignation should be linked to a ministerial reshuffle in the country’s government, promoted by President Emmanuel Macron, to give new impetus to the government, which will be announced, according to Agence France-Presse, on Tuesday morning.
According to the Elysee Palace, Borne will remain in his position until a successor is named. Gabriel Attal, the current Education Minister, and Sébastien Lecornu, the Defense Minister, are the two names mentioned by the government. middle The French are the main candidates for succession. At 34 and 37 years respectively, one or the other could become France's youngest ever prime minister. Other hypotheses on the table include Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Finance, and Julien Denormandy, former Minister of Agriculture.
In the letter he addressed to the president formalizing his resignation, cited by AFP, in which he indicated the head of state's “readiness” to “appoint a new Prime Minister,” Borne highlighted “how passionately” I had always been with the “mission.” The leadership of the executive branch, “guided by continued attention” to “achieving rapid and tangible results” for citizens, said it was “more necessary than ever to continue reforms.”
Madam First Minister, check this out @elizabeth_bourne, your travel to our nation's service on a typical day. You see us all promoting the courage, participation, and determination of women in the country. With all my heart, mercy. pic.twitter.com/G26ifKfKzj
– Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 8, 2024
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Borne's departure from the scene comes at a time of enormous pressure on the executive branch and the French president, following the debate that culminated in the tightening of immigration laws – which the government viewed as a concession to the far right – at the end of the year, and the approval of the controversial reform of the French pension system, in March. , by presidential decree, raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030, and sparked a wave of protests against Macron.
In the year of the Paris Olympics and, above all, the European Parliament elections – at a time when Marine Le Pen's National Party is leading in the polls, eight to ten percentage points ahead of the Renaissance, Macron – the French president is offering an oxygen balloon to the government.
Currently 62 years old, Bourne is the second woman to hold an executive position in France. With his accumulated experience in various ministerial positions in the previous governments of the Republic in March (currently the Renaissance Era) and as an advisor to the leaders of the Socialist Party, the resigned Prime Minister faced many difficulties in approving presidential laws in the National Assembly, since Macron’s centrist party lost its parliamentary majority in the legislative elections in June 2022. .
Mathilde Panot, leader of the left-wing parliamentary group of Unsubjected France, has already promised, through a letter published in A crowd.
In an interview with PÚBLICO, in October 2022, Elisabeth Borne criticized France Insubisa, of NUPES, after the far-right supported the censure motion presented by this left-wing coalition.
“What happened is very shocking. Some leftist leaders, namely France Insubisa, were happy to have the support of the National Union and what this shows is that for this leftist party – I do not put them all in the same bag – within the coalition NUPES there are those who are willing to do Anything to overthrow the government, including abandoning their values.
