30 minutes per appointment, watch in hand, to gauge the atmosphere. Several parliamentary groups have exchanged since Monday with Elisabeth Borne the hope that the Prime Minister will emerge from the political and social crisis. Not very convincing.
“I was a bit lost. She seems in a kind of denial ”, we advance in the ranks of Liot, received this Monday at Matignon.
“A Time Delay”
Anxious to appear to listen, the head of government took out a notebook and a pen in front of each interlocutor. On the menu of these meetings: the results of the last few weeks, marked by large-scale mobilizations against the pension reform and the activation of 49.3 so that the text is approved without a vote.
But, above all, Elisabeth Borne wants to project herself in the aftermath by bringing Emmanuel Macron’s priorities to school, ecology and health. “I have no doubts” that “we can together build an agenda to give answers to the French,” she said on Monday.
“He is coming out of not very easy days and I think he is now measuring the consequences, with a delay,” deciphered the deputy and spokesman for the UDI Christophe Naegelen, after his appointment.
“Avoided the concrete a bit”
Faced with the centrists, the enarque mentioned the next major texts that it expects Parliament to approve, starting with the future military programming law. Second objective: advance a law around full employment, which she hopes to address this Wednesday with the inter-union that is waiting for her in turn.
The executive also plans to work on a text around the “green industry” and agriculture. “I will put all my energy into advancing these priorities with those who want to work for the success of the country,” the sixty-year-old promised on her Twitter account, without further details.
“He did not give us a date, chronology or precise content. He took the temperature, he avoided the concrete a bit”, specifies Jean-Claude Requier, president of the RDSE group in the Senate.
“You can’t be disappointed when you don’t expect a miracle,” this senator still philosophizes.
If no Nupes group has agreed to meet with Élisabeth Borne -although the left-wing parties have exchanged with her like Marine Tondelier or Olivier Faure-, it is this Wednesday when the sixty-year-old is at stake for her future.
“She’s trying to buy time”
He will exchange with right-wing lieutenants Éric Ciotti, Olivier Marleix and Bruno Retailleau, on whom his political future depends to a large extent. Promoter of the macronie since the legislative elections and the relative majority, the government has managed to approve all its texts with the exception of pensions, relying to a large extent on the LR. Until his retirement.
Without convincing some of his interlocutors that the situation can really change.
“Above all, I had the impression that he was trying to buy time until the decision of the Constitutional Council and that the parade in his office was only to occupy space,” sums up his interlocutors cruelly.
The wise men who could partially or totally censure the pension reform will make their decision on April 14, the last day of the series of Matignon consultations.
Source: BFM TV
