No question of giving up arms. “I will not give up convincing”, launched this Saturday Elisabeth Borne during the congress of Horizons, the party of Édouard Philippe, in Vincennes. “I will not give up on building compromises. I will not give up acting. I am here to find agreements and carry out the necessary transformations for our country and for the French people, ”added the Prime Minister, weakened since 49.3 triggered on the pension reform and the motion of censure which failed by nine votes.
“United, we will be until the end the militants of courage, the supporters of the reform, and more than anything, the architects of the solutions”, added the tenant of Matignon.
A desire to “surpass”
During her speech, the head of government explained the roadmap assigned by Emmanuel Macron to “expand the relative majority”, while again pleading for “overcoming” between the right and the left, where Horizons, party member of the majority, is anchored on the right.
“Expanding our majority means concluding project contracts with each other, without preconceptions, without necessarily looking in the same direction, and building a reform agenda at the service of the French people. I know that I can count on the mobilization of Horizons to achieve this”.
“A demand for justice”
While a new day of mobilization against the pension reform is scheduled for next Tuesday, March 28, the Prime Minister has indicated that she wants to be “listening to the doubts and sometimes the anger expressed in the social movements, which go far beyond the pension reform. This is a request for justice. It is a matter of taking into account the evolution of our relationship to work and offering real prospects to everyone”.
Edouard Philippe, of whom she was the minister when he led the government (2017-2020), had previously paid tribute to the “correctness”, the “determination” and the “intellectual honesty” of Elisabeth Borne.