MADRID, 16 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
French President Emmanuel Macron appointed former Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne as the new Prime Minister on Monday, the first in 30 years, replacing Jean Castex, who had resigned hours earlier.
Borne, who in recent years had also served as Minister of Transport and Ecological Transition, is “a woman of conviction, action and realization”, according to Macron who has already instructed her to form a government, according to a note provided by the Elysee.
His appointment has not pleased the heads of the main opposition parties. For the leader of the far-right National Rally, Marine Le Pen, Macron’s appointment demonstrates “his inability to unite and the will to continue with his policy of contempt.”
In a message on his Twitter profile, Le Pen assures that this appointment represents “the deconstruction of the State, social destruction, fiscal extortion and laxity”, while the leader of La France Insumisa, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, predicts “a new season of social abuse.
“Mrs. Borne represents everything that has not worked in the last twenty years”, Mélenchon has also written in her profile, who has accused the new prime minister of being “among the harshest figures of social abuse” and has recalled some of its policies such as the reduction of the allocation to one million unemployed, the abolition of regulated gas prices, or the increase in the retirement year.
The one who has exchanged words of praise has been the one who is now his predecessor, Jean Castex, an “effective team leader at the service of France” and “a servant” of the State and “its valiant agents”, according to the words of the still Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Castex had already revealed after the elections that he would present his resignation and that of his entire government “in the days following” the victory of Macron, who won the second round of the presidential election against the far-right Marine Le Pen.
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