2023-06-15 18:39:30
From our special correspondent in Liglet, La Trimouille and Saulgé (Vienne)
“You don’t want to tell us it’s beautiful, but it’s far? “Oh no, it’s just beautiful!” “replies the Prime Minister, with an almost playful air. Elisabeth Borne is not Jacques Chirac. However, she is comfortable, this Thursday, visiting Vienne. Accompanied by several ministers (Christophe Bechu for the Ecological Transition and the territories, Olivia Gregoire for SMEs, commerce and crafts, and Dominique Faure for local authorities), the head of government comes to present her France Ruralités plan.
No demonstrations or noise of saucepans on the horizon. Elisabeth Borne is trying, with weekly trips “in the territories”, to put the pension reform behind her. Like Emmanuel Macron in April, but at a lower noise level. “The Prime Minister is in her role, she acts on all fronts. And going to the territories rather than spending your life in the Hemicycle, it’s a pleasure, “smiles the entourage of the head of government, who comes to survive an eighteenth motion of censure at theNational Assembly in less than a year.
“They’re not bad, our helpers, huh!” »
These are of course not the presidential crowds to welcome the Prime Minister. What’s more, in Liglet, the first stage of the day, a village of 319 inhabitants on the borders of Poitou-Charentes, Centre a you Limousin. The few clusters of inhabitants are shy, silent and respectful. Sustaining, even, sometimes! “We support you, huh, keep going! “, assures an elderly resident, holding the arm of Elisabeth Borne, who laughs with pleasure. She is almost playful, the head of government: “We are between us”, she says to another lady who pushes her friend to talk to her. She lends herself to the game of the (rare) selfies that are asked of her. It also lends itself to the game of removing bread in the multiservice bakery, the subject of the visit to Liglet. She is smiling, relaxed, sometimes laughing: “They are not bad, our helpers, huh! “, she launches to an elected official satisfied with the rescue of small businesses.
We could almost forget that the rumor announces a reshuffle, even a change of government: “She does not spend her day wondering about it”, loose Matignon. Some of the Macronist parliamentarians present even come to doubt that he can intervene before the next school year. As for the fate of the Prime Minister herself, she does not seem more concerned than that. However, she “campaigns”. No later than this Thursday morning, in a long interview with Figaro. Given as burnt out after 49.3 on retreats, has it turned the tide, at least for a while? “We never had the impression of having a steam to reverse, assures those around him. She has a roadmap, and she is moving forward. »
Gone to stay
This roadmap is the one presented at the end of April, for the “100 days” announced by Emmanuel Macron. A roadmap that skilfully goes well beyond this calendar limit. It does not commit its N + 1 in any way, of course, but it shows that we are planning, that the program is ready… So why change? In her speech, this Thursday, she added a personal spring that is not the most usual for her: she recalls that she has great pleasure in returning to Vienne, where she was prefect ten years ago. “Rural areas have a feeling of relegation that you can’t get over. Which I can’t bring myself to, insists Elisabeth Borne. And it is an elected official from the Normandy countryside who tells you. »
But we feel that it is when she discusses background and technique that she is most at ease. Elisabeth Borne campaigns, but does not force her nature. A sort of take-it-or-leave-it prime minister. For now, she is on track to stay.
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