Emmanuel Macron elevated his former prime minister Elisabeth Borne to the rank of commander of the Legion of Honor on Monday, November 25, under the glass roof of the Elysée Winter Garden. a ceremony “very simple, like a civil funeral”a guest commented scathingly on the way out.
The opportunity for the Head of State, who has not always forgiven his Prime Minister, to give a speech “sensitive, quite touching, quite gentle”according to a witness, in homage to the one who first had to face the upheavals of a National Assembly without an absolute majority, and who now sits as a simple deputy.
Surrounded by her mother, her son, her daughter-in-law and her partner, Elisabeth Borne, who since January has turned the page on her brutal expulsion from Matignon, was able to savor the president’s strong praise. Emmanuel Macron highlighted the “modesty” and the “sense of responsibility” of the polytechnic. He also paid tribute to his performance over the last seven years, from the Ministry of Transport, where he directed the reform of the SNCF, and at the head of the Government, where he promoted, thanks to 49.3, the very controversial pension reform. and the thorny “immigration” law.
A woman who “is not afraid to face challenges”
Before around thirty guests, including the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the former ministers Clément Beaune, Aurore Bergé, Julien Denormandie, Olivier Dussopt, Stanislas Guerini, Olivia Grégoire , Jean-Yves Le Drian, Jacques Mézard, Florence Parly, the secretary general of the Elysée Alexis Kohler, and even the recipient’s former chief of staff, Aurélien Rousseau, now a socialist deputy, Emmanuel Macron praised once again “commitment” and the ” loyalty “ of a woman who “without fear of taking on challenges”, who has always had “the concern to preserve the unity of the majority”and of which he “It measures even more than yesterday” the qualities.
The day after the unsurprising and inglorious election of Gabriel Attal as head of the Renaissance, after Elisabeth Borne finally gave up challenging him, Emmanuel Macron praised the withdrawal of the elected Calvados official, who “ “It favored collective reflection over individual temptation.”.
Like two years ago, when he presented her with the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, Emmanuel Macron recalled the painful family history of Elisabeth Borne, whose father, Joseph Bornstein, of Russian Jewish origin, deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II. The war ended his life when he was 11 years old. “Since Borne, this nom de guerre whispered in the shadow of the Second World War, your father’s name of resistance, you have made a name that resonates in the upper echelons of the Republic as in the streets of Normandy, and that always resonates. with the echoes of righteousness and commitment”greeting.
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