Legislative: Elisabeth Borne in campaign in Calvados, strong of support of Edouard Philippe

The Prime Minister must win in the legislative elections to keep his post at Matignon.

Le Monde with AFP

The “implantation” operation continues for Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister deemed technocrat, who appears for the first time before voters and electricity on the occasion of the legislative elections, with the obligation to win if she intends to stay at the head of the government. The former Minister of Labor was campaigning in Vire (Calvados), Saturday June 4, strong of the company of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, support of Emmanuel Macron and mayor (horizons) of Le Havre.

m. Philippe described his arrival in the 6 e district of the department, where M ^{me terminal is invested, “friendly visit”, “political visit too, because [‘ They] wish [to] both give the president a stable and solid majority “. “With Edouard Philippe, we share an attachment to Normandy, he came in neighbor,” supported M me bounded, stressing that, “in the previous five -year term, [they] led a lot of reforms , of combat in common “.}

m. Philippe, who is carrying out a very active campaign in support of candidates for the legislative elections, therefore braided laurels to his successor. “I am happy that it is she who sticks to it, because she is solid. It reassures me,” he insisted, saying that she has no “advice to give her”.

They therefore traveled an hour during a shopping street, rushing into a pastry to buy a lemon cake for Mr. Philippe or sharing a coffee at the little bistro, whose owner, Roger, says working “seven days out of seven, like a mercenary “. “I started at 14 years of age. I had to work, the parents did not ask if it liked it or not,” he said, indicating that “we have trouble recruiting, in all domains “, while” we have millions of unemployed “. “The problem in our country is that we devalue manual professions,” replied M ^{me terminal, which notably praised the merits of learning.}

Pommeau

Without Mr. Philippe, the Prime Minister, who must hold a public meeting in Vire on Wednesday, then went, in the afternoon, to the Pontécoulant castle, to meet local producers, lending himself to the game of selfies. “This is the first time that I have been crossing a Prime Minister,” said a producer of Calvados, also a dairy farmer. “It is not a very widespread species,” joked M ^{me borne, which is the second woman to occupy Matignon (after Edith Cresson in 1991-1992), before buying a bottle of pommel.}

The Prime Minister also found the time to support Jean-Michel Blanquer, candidate for the legislative elections in the Loiret, sprayed with foam on a Montargis market by two men who were placed in police custody. “The debate, the confrontation of ideas are always riches. Physical or symbolic violence has no place in our democracy,” wrote M bounds on Twitter.