With legislative elections, Elisabeth Borne faces first of her many challenges to win in Matignon

The capacity of the new Matignon tenant to win in the face of the heavyweights of the government, to exist in the shadow of Emmanuel Macron, and above all to make his voice heard in opinion already arouses doubts.

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Above all, do not miss the landing. Elisabeth Borne does not really have a choice: if she wants to maintain herself in Matignon, the new Prime Minister is forced to prevail in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. The one who has never rubbed shoulders with universal suffrage seeks to be elected in the 6 e district of Calvados, in the heart of the Norman bocage. For its baptism of fire, the head of the government runs, a priori, a low risk: it was parachuted on a territory rather favorable to Emmanuel Macron, where the latter came first with almost 31 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential election.

Logically, the former Minister of Labor is a favorite in the first round, before Noah Gauchard, candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). Before being a winner in the second round. Despite these load -bearing winds, M bound “leads to the field, on the field,” said those around him, without considering that the match is already folded. His main opponent dreams of creating surprise, taking advantage of the dynamics recorded by the cloud and the mobilization of anti-macron voters. “Being able to resign the Prime Minister through voting bulletins is one of the arguments that mobilize people,” explains Noé Gauchard, 22 -year -old ecologist student, who judges M bound “not reassured”. Reference to his refusal to participate in the television debate which brought together all the candidates in the constituency, on June 5, on France 3.

If she manages to cross this first hedge, the hardest part will start for the tenant of Matignon, who will have many challenges to take up. First of all, it will have to impose itself as the head of the majority, by managing to ensure the fidelity of the deputies of the Republic En Marche (LRM), the Modem, Horizons or even to act. A task whose difficulty will depend on the outcome of the legislative elections. If macronists succeeded in obtaining an absolute majority alone, the former prefect should not have difficulty dictating driving to a group whose loyalty to the President of the Republic remains the main compass. But, in the event of a relative majority, she will have to deal with the troops of the president of the Modem, François Bayrou, and those of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Or two politicians with a strong character, and more experienced than it. On June 8, the mayor of Le Havre already warned that the majority should not be “servile”.

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