She will have remained in post for one year, seven months, and twenty-three days. So here is Elisabeth Borne on the departure of Matignon, after handing in the resignation of her government to Emmanuel Macron. Resignation that the president accepted.
From her time at the head of government, the former Minister of Labor will leave the memory of a harsh era, undermined in particular by the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly for the presidential camp. A situation which forced the Prime Minister to constantly maneuver to get her reforms adopted, using the entire constitutional arsenal. An arsenal in which we obviously find… the famous article 49.3 (for those who have not seen the light for two years, it allows the government to pass a text in the Hemicycle without a vote, incurring its responsibility) .
She brought out in spades, 49.3s, Elisabeth Borne. But how much exactly? 10? 12? 15? 18? Even more ?
More than one per month on average
Since Elisabeth Borne was a diligent Prime Minister, she worked to model her use of 49.3 on the calendar. So, at the end of 2023 – there hasn’t been one since – the former head of government had used the famous article no less than… 23 times. That’s on average more than one per month. The most emblematic will undoubtedly remain the one drawn up to pass the pension reform last March.
And since we’re in the stats, here’s another: Elisabeth will have survived, during her time at Matignon, around thirty motions of censure.