Emmanuel Macron refuses resignation of Elisabeth Borne “so that government remains in his task”

The Prime Minister will bring together the whole government in Matignon on Tuesday, early afternoon.

Le Monde with afp

disruptive, again and again. Emmanuel Macron refused, Tuesday, June 21, the resignation that his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, submitted to him, and this “so that the government can remain on the task,” said the Elysée. It is traditional, after the legislative elections, that the head of government proposes his resignation. This approach returns to a new legitimation of the Prime Minister, immediately renamed in his post by the president. Emmanuel Macron chose, conversely, to refuse this ritual resignation.

“The Prime Minister pleaded to stay, in order to have the tools to deal with the situation and the emergency room of the French, which we could not do with a resigning government and in management of current affairs, A Explained those around him at the France-Presse agency (AFP). There are many decrees to be made in the coming days, including the revaluation of the index [of civil servants], the second phase of Parcoursup, the bonus- Automobile penalty, the implementation of the emergency measures of the Braun mission [on urgent and unscheduled care], bonuses for learning. We cannot afford to have a government that does not manage this. ”

consultations at the Elysée

The Head of State will lead “the necessary political consultations (…) in order to identify the possible constructive solutions in the service of the French,” said the presidency, before a series of appointments with the party leaders Tuesday and Wednesday at the Elysée. M terminal will bring together the whole government in Matignon in the early afternoon, announced its entourage to AFP.

Among the members of the government expected on rue de Varenne will appear the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, and the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Benin, said the Prime Minister’s entourage. All three defeated on Sunday in the second round of the legislative elections, they will have to leave the government.

The president, who had lunch on Monday with Elisabeth Borne and the Ensemble Tenors !, Edouard Philippe and François Bayrou, resumed the initiative in the face of the risk of blocking his reforms in the assembly, inviting managers of political parties. Six of them will be received successively Tuesday at the Elysée: Christian Jacob (Les Républicains) opened the march, before Olivier Faure (Socialist Party), François Bayrou (Modem), Stanislas Guerini (La République en Marche), Marine le Pen (national rally) and Fabien Roussel (French Communist Party), before others, s Wednesday, like the head of Europe Ecologie-les Verts, Julien Bayou.

/Media reports.