Macron-Borne: Her and him | The echoes

Propriety dictates that the feminine pronoun precedes the masculine. Added to this is the taste for cinema, and the temptation to evoke Leo McCarey’s delicious film. But honesty pushes us to recognize that the title chosen for this column is largely erroneous. When we approach the Emmanuel Macron-Elisabeth Borne relationship, there is no possible doubt. It is of “him and her” that it is appropriate to speak. The hierarchy must be marked. The Head of State has never considered that his Prime Minister should be anything other than an executor. For having expanded his political surface, Edouard Philippe was ousted.

Elisabeth Borne has integrated it from the start, expressing disagreement, when there is one, only behind closed doors of their face-to-face. Never in public. And why not take the reasoning further and retain the formula “him and him”? Macron in Marseille Macron to VivaTech , Macron reindustrializing the country. Macron tweeting at the end of a heavy sequence: “This week to relocate our industrial production, I put all my energy. We are Friday. I still have ! »

The president has indeed entrusted a hundred-day mission to his Prime Minister, but the best way to turn the page on pensions is to “re-engage” him, he believes, to go into the field, to take initiatives . The positive effects observed in polls comforting him in the idea that there are basically only two actors on the stage, says a very close friend: “him and the French”.

When the oppositions reinforce it

Casually, the oppositions contributed to it. They could have chosen, if they really wanted to achieve it, to ignore this president who is no longer able to run again. They chose the opposite. Marine Le Pen in Le Havre makes him its number one target; the left also when are dissolved Earth Uprisings . It remains in the center of the game. It can land as the only rampart.

The rest is therefore secondary. The government ? “It does not interest him”, continues the same relative. A Prime Minister remaining in uncertainty for several weeks? Everything that is weak emphasizes its strengths by contrast. Up to a point of course. This Monday in “La Provence”, the president says his “confidence” in Elisabeth Borne and asks her to present, by July 14, “the new public finance strategy, progress on immigration and ecological planning” .

As if, at least for a while, he dispelled the uncertainty hovering over his fate. Reinforced the Prime Minister? The word is strong. Extended at most. She or another for that matter, is it so important, when the essential is elsewhere?