The President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron has appointed Elisabeth Borne as premier and has given her the task of forming a new government. You announced the Elysée after the announced resignation of Prime Minister Jean Castex. Elisabeth Borne is the first woman to lead a French government in 30 years: the only one to have held this position so far has been the socialist Edith Cresson.
The first to congratulate the was Renaud Muselier, president of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, who in a tweet called “the appointment of Elisabeth Borne in Matignon excellent news for France”. «For 5 years, on the issues of transport, the environment and work, I was able to measure her competence and her commitment to France. Emmanuel Macron made a good choice, ”he added.
Who is Elisabeth Borne
61-year-old Elisabeth Borne is chosen as prime minister after doing her rehearsals in Macron’s first term as minister of Transport, then Ecological Transition and finally Labor. Once close to the socialists, she has a long technical and political career behind her. You are part of the left wing of the French president’s party, which judges you to be loyal and tenacious. Born in Paris on April 18, 1961, Borne is the daughter of a Russian Jew with a background in the French Resistance and a pharmacist from the Calvados region. A civil engineer, she has been involved in politics since the early nineties, as an adviser to the socialist ministers Lionel Jospin and Jack Lang.
In 2002 she became director of the strategy of the French National Railways (Sncf). She was also prefect of the Poitou Charente region, head of cabinet of the Minister of Ecology Segolene Royale and president of urban transport of Paris (Ratp), from 2015 to 2017. She is Divorced, she is the mother of a child. Before her only one woman, Edith Cresson, had been prime minister. She will have to face what Le Figaro calls “the mother of all battles”, or rather the pension reform. In her entire career, Borne has never subjected herself to the judgment of the voters. She will do it for the first time in the legislative elections in June, running for a seat in Calvados, the region of origin of her mother.