The Prime Minister begins her political and media return with a subtle but firm call to order. Invited Wednesday by France Bleu at the end of the Council of Ministers, Elisabeth Borne scolded her Minister of the Interior. “We are in 2023, we are preparing for 2024 and 2027, it’s a long way off,” she said when Gérald Darmanin must meet his relatives on Sunday in Tourcoing. An unprecedented political initiative for the government’s number three after his disappointment at not having been appointed to Matignon last July.
His recent confidences in Le Figaro where he castigates the “bobo-liberal left” did not go unnoticed at Matignon. “What worries me now is what will happen in 2027,” he also admitted, opening the debate on post-Macron. “Me, my concern is really the cohesion of the government, the effectiveness of the action of the government, the unity of the majority”, insisted Elisabeth Borne, who began her week by receiving the bosses of the parties of the majority. She will go to the parliamentary days of MoDem, Horizons and Renaissance in mid-September.
“The Minister of the Interior, like the whole of the government, has a priority, which is to meet the expectations of the French, to also prepare for the major deadlines that are ahead of us, to support our country in the ecological transition, to continue reindustrialization and full employment”, hammered the Prime Minister who will not go to Tourcoing, especially since she was not invited by her minister. There, it will be about the working classes at a time when the 2024 budget will be marked by a turn of the screw to fight deficits.
“I fully hear the strong expectations of the middle classes”, declared Elisabeth Borne who swore that “there is no question of increasing household taxes, on the contrary”. The Prime Minister, however, confirmed that an increase in medical deductibles is indeed “a track” explored by the government which will have to decide the question “soon”. “We are a country in which we consume more drugs than our neighbors so that is part of the reflections,” she said, promising to “protect very modest people and patients who have chronic or long-term infections. “.
Conversely, Elisabeth Borne certified that “there is no plan to increase taxes on alcohol at all”.
