Former Prime Minister Edith Cresson, the first woman to hold this post, was the surprise guest on Tuesday night at a reception for women members of the government organized in Matignon by Elisabeth Borne.
The 88-year-old former head of government had an “emotional” exchange before this meeting with the current prime minister, the second woman to join Matignon, according to her entourage.
An exchange with the Born
During this first meeting, the two women exchanged anecdotes, and evoked the way in which they made up their government, less feminine in the time of Edith Cresson, whose government only had 6 women (out of 45 members) while that of d’Elisabeth Borne there are as many women as men (21), although few of them occupy sovereign positions.
She stayed 10 months and 18 days in Matignon (1991-1992) and abandoned under criticism, Edith Cresson returned “to the political class that was not tender with women” and “her legitimacy that was discussed when she had been mayor, elected local representative , regional councilor and four times minister, of Agriculture, Foreign Trade, Industrial Redeployment and European Affairs.
The two Prime Ministers “realized that things had not evolved enough” while a Prime Minister “should no longer be a question or a source of amazement”, according to the same source.
They underlined their same “relationship of trust with their respective presidents”, François Mitterrand and Emmanuel Macron, who according to them made “a decisive choice” in appointing them.
Source: BFM TV
