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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed this Saturday his confidence in the prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, and has asked her to lead new consultations with the parliamentary groups to form a “government of action” “at the beginning of July”.
Emmanuel Macron “confirmed” on Saturday, June 25, his confidence in Elisabeth Borne and instructed the prime minister to carry out new consultations with the parliamentary groups to form an “action government” by “early July,” he announced in an interview. with the AFP news agency.
“Seeing the refusals and availability” that were expressed during the first exchanges with the political forces, “I have decided today to confirm my confidence in Elisabeth Borne”, explained the head of state, while the fate of the head of government was the subject of speculation since the presidential address on Wednesday.
The President of the Republic, who met with the head of the Government on Saturday, announced that he had commissioned her to probe the political groups of the National Assembly over the next week on a “government agreement”, his participation in a government , his position on the vote of confidence in Elisabeth Borne on July 5, and also on the vote on the state budget next fall.
“Upon my return from the G7 and NATO, which is taking place until Thursday, the Prime Minister will present proposals for the French Government’s roadmap for the coming months and years, and also for the composition of a new Action Executive to the service of the French that we will launch in the first days of July”, he added.
Macron: “I am confident in our collective ability to achieve this”
This government could be joined by representatives of political forces willing to cooperate with the majority.
“I am confident in our collective capacity to achieve it. I am confident in the Prime Minister’s ability to carry them forward. I am confident in the spirit of responsibility of the ruling forces,” assured the Head of State.
Taking the floor again between two stages of his diplomatic marathon that will take him to Germany on Sunday for the G7 and on Tuesday to Madrid for the NATO summit, Macron said that “the basis of these discussions” with the prime minister will be the “framework of the presidential project and that of the presidential majority, which can be modified or enriched”.
And this, with the red line of not increasing “neither taxes nor debt.”
Despite his setback in the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron has not given up on his pension reform with the aim of “working longer like all our neighbors do, taking into account working conditions and therefore the standards of deficiency, taking into account the long careers”.
Together with the reform towards full employment, they are “the two great reforms that we must carry out in consultation, without totems or taboos, but maintaining a course of ambition”.
Discarded a government agreement with the parties of Le Pen and Mélenchon
The head of state, in search of reinforcements after losing the absolute majority in the Assembly last Sunday, has however ruled out the possibility of an agreement with Marine Le Pen’s National Association and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La Francia Insumisa.
The possible allies, “will be from the communists to the Republicans. The French people have given legitimacy to the deputies of Le Pena and Mélenchon and these parties have a political formation. I do not confuse the extremes, but by their expression, their position – I have always been clear about it – these formations do not fit as government parties”.
*With AFP; adapted from its French version
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