“I have not withdrawn my candidacy,” Élisabeth Borne assured this Wednesday morning at the microphone of RTL, concerning the presidency of the Renaissance party. Before asserting that she had “found an agreement with Gabriel Attal”. The former Prime Minister specified that they were “working for the merger of the lists” that they had “constituted, both of them” and a “sharing of responsibilities”.
In his words on national radio, it is important to “play for unity and complementarity” in “the political period we are experiencing”. She thus elaborated: “He is a candidate for the post of secretary general, I for the presidency of the national council. What matters to me is to include our central political bloc in French political life by carrying out a project that restores confidence to the French. »
Spikes towards Gabriel Attal in his book?
Invited on RTL to talk about her book Twenty months in MatignonÉlisabeth Borne returned to the lines she had written about Gabriel Attal. Responding to a question from Thomas Sotto on the fact that it was not “customary for the leader of the group in the Assembly to combine with the position of party leader”, she assured that she would not “resume the head of the group.
“I am simply saying that these are two functions which are very demanding in the current context in the party, because there are many things to resume, to revive,” she concluded.
