issuing time: 16/05/2022 – 23:00
French Labour and Social Affairs Minister Élisabeth Borne will be the new Prime Minister. This is France’s first female prime minister in more than 30 years. France’s first female prime minister was Édith Cresson, appointed by Mitterrand in 1991. Borne said at the handover ceremony on the 16th: We must face climate and ecological challenges faster and stronger. She made environmental protection a top priority in her tenure, but she did not forget the difficult reform that awaited her – the reform of the retirement system.
Borne was born in Paris on April 18, 1961 and is 61 years old. She is a female engineer at the Ecole Polytechnique and Paris Tech Bridge. In 1987, the well-organized science students gradually entered the government sector. In February 2013, she was appointed female governor of Poitou-Charente. She was the first female governor of France.
She has since held positions in the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Ecology and the Ministry of Labor. In 2017, Borne made sweeping changes to the French state railway company when he was transport minister. Everyone knows how difficult it is to attack the state-run railway.
In 2018, the employees of the Railway Bureau went on strike for 37 days before and following the call of the labor union, protesting that the government invested their iron jobs in private enterprises, opened up the management rights, and introduced a competition mechanism. Borne was the president of the Paris mass transit company; she was also the director of strategy at the State Railways. The operation of the transportation sector can be said to be well-informed. In the face of strong pressure, she did not back down, and on June 14, 2018, she forcibly passed the reform plan of the National Railway.
Former French interior minister Christophe Castaner had such an evaluation of the “French Thatcher”. After the success of the national railway reform, Castane said: Bonaire can achieve institutional reforms that cannot be achieved (“Ministry des réformes impossibles rendues possibles”.).
But Bonaire himself has always marketed himself as a leftist. She once said to the media that social justice and equality are the goals she has fought for her whole life. When she participated in an exclusive interview with TV 8’s entertainment program, she said: My mother is an ordinary pharmacist; I lost my father when I was 11 years old. I have the strength to fight, but at the same time I also think of people whose life is not easy.
Before being re-elected, Macron did not shy away from the issue of reforming the retirement system. Macron publicly stated that the statutory retirement age should be postponed to 64-65 years old; at the same time, the reform of French unemployment insurance should be carried out more deeply. Although Borne put the focus on environmental protection following taking office, she knows that retirement reform is the real difficulty. The road in front of her is definitely not smooth!
