For the first time in thirty-one years, the French prime minister is once again a woman. Elisabeth Borne was appointed premier by the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, after the resignation of Jean Castex. Before her, she had been alone in leading the French government the socialist Edith Cressonwhich had been nominated by François Mitterrand.
61 years oldBorn in Paris in 1961, Elisabeth Borne is the daughter of a Russian Jew with a background in the French Resistance and a pharmacist from the Calvados region. Civil engineerentered politics in the early 1990s, as an advisor to Socialist ministers Lionel Jospin and Jack Lang.
He can boast a long technical and political career. In 2002 you became the director of the strategy of the French National Railways (SNCF). You were prefect of the Poitou Charente region, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Ecology Segolene Royale e president of urban transport in Paris (Ratp), from 2015 to 2017.
In Macron’s first term he held the position of Minister of Transport, then of Ecological Transition and finally of Labor. She too was, in the past, close to the socialists. She today she is part ofleft wing of Macron’s party. Divorced, she is the mother of a child.
As prime minister, will have to face the pension reformwhat according to Le Figaro is “the mother of all battles”.
Satisfied Marlène Schiappa, former deputy minister for equality between men and women: “A woman in Matignon, a historic day for equality”.
“I dedicate this appointment to all the little girlsSaid the newly appointed Elisabeth Borne. “Pursue your dreams, nothing must stop the fight for the role of women in society”, are the first words of the premier. Macron, willing “to act without respite” together with Elisabeth Borne, has already drawn up the list of priorities: “Ecology, health, education, full employment, democratic rebirth, Europe and security”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
