Elisabeth Borne failed to gather. This is what transpires the decision to use 49.3 to pass the pension reform. After the failure of the legislative elections for the government, Elisabeth Borne had a crucial mission: to unite.
It was to widen the majority in particular behind this controversial text. But one thing is certain, it is neither on the left nor on the far right of the hemicycle that the head of government can hope for full and complete support.
If many divergent visions exist, it is despite everything with the Les Républicains party that Renaissance knows a certain ideological proximity. But if the absence of a vote in the National Assembly on the text of the pension reform has shown one thing, it is that for this law, this strategy has proven to be a failure.
From now on, Elisabeth Borne’s place in Matignon seems more threatened than ever and the “100 days” of appeasement announced by Emmanuel Macron sound like a countdown to a cabinet reshuffle. Thus, a question agitates the lips of elected officials as well as citizens: who could well take the place of the Prime Minister?
The importance of this decision is indisputable because the person who will embody the next government will have to succeed where his predecessor failed. To unite, the executive’s gaze is therefore turned to the right. “There are three solutions: the majority of work, theme by theme, on identified objects; a more pronounced contract, as Larcher wants; or a larger reorganization, which forms a coalition with LR.”, dropped a relative of Macron with the Journal du Dimanche.
But does this option seem feasible on the side of the Republicans?
At the end of a seminar bringing together elected LR officials, including party president Éric Ciotti, Yannick Neuder, deputy for Isère, declared in the columns of Le Figaro that “LR’s cohabitation with Emmanuel Macron is not the agenda”.
However, internally, some believe that such an alliance could be beneficial to the party. “A government agreement, a cohabitation, a coalition, let’s call it what you want, it’s inevitable: we have four years ahead of us and there is no majority,” said Philippe Juvin, deputy for Hauts. -de-Seine, at the origin of a platform calling for the appointment of a right-wing prime minister.
Within the party, they would be a dozen to want to work with the President of the Republic, note our colleagues. Beyond these people, several tenors of the right secretly hope to join the government, knowing full well that a chance to penetrate the Executive does not present itself every four mornings.
Among the most senior Republicans, several are believed to be eyeing government jobs. Éric Ciotti would be particularly interested in the Ministry of the Interior. “When we listen to him, Ciotti does not say that he does not want to, he simply says that it takes two people for an agreement to be possible. And he does not have the impression that Emmanuel Macron has any very envious”, thus loose, to our colleagues, a minister from the right.
But for Matignon, several names have already come out. In addition to that of the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher or the President of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand would be tempted by the post of head of government. For now, nothing says that an agreement between the majority and the right will soon see the light of day, but such a scenario cannot be ruled out.
