Elisabeth Borne details the “emergencies” of her government

A week after the announcement of the composition of her government, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne gathered all her ministers at Matignon on Friday May 27 to set her roadmap. At the end of the meeting, the head of government explained to the press that purchasing power, health and the climate will be the three ” emergency room “ which his team will have to tackle.

“The first weeks of our action must be devoted to responding to the emergencies of the French”pleaded M^me Borne, who assured that purchasing power was the first of his priorities. “We agreed that there should be no oversights or blind spotsshe said to the press. In addition to retirees, employees, the self-employed, public officials, I asked my ministers to pay particular attention to students. »

After the first council of ministers on Monday, the new government spokeswoman, Olivia Grégoire, had put forward the idea on Monday of a “first bill (…) adopted by the Council of Ministers before the legislative elections” on the issue of purchasing power. “It will be in this text (…) to help all French people to reduce their constrained expenses. I’m thinking about energy prices (…). It will be a question of acting on the price of food with the food voucher »she had specified.

Olivia Grégoire had also made it known that the government was going “increase social benefits” through retreats, before adding that the executive “will upgrade the salaries of civil servants. This will be done with the raising of the civil service index point (…) the Macron bonus will no longer be exceptional but permanent ”. A calendar on which it was however necessary to backpedal and provide details. In the end, it will be two bills – one relating to the measures, the other to their financing – which will be presented after the legislative elections, the executive confining itself to a simple « communication » in the Council of Ministers ahead of the ballot.

Expected proposals on hospitals

In addition to the issue of purchasing power, that of hospitals facing a shortage of staff was also raised by Ms.^me Thick headed. The Prime Minister on Friday asked the “concerned ministers” of him “to make proposals very quickly to take effective measures for the summer”. Finally, the head of government said she wanted to lead the ” worksite “ ecological planning “fast walking”calling on all ministries to ” mobilize “ et ” to participate “.

“But these emergency projects obviously do not exhaust the action of the government”noted the Prime Minister, who gave “three watchwords: speed, efficiency and results”. In order to follow up on these roadmaps, M^me Borne announced that a government seminar would take place “before the end of June” around Emmanuel Macron. And that she herself would bring together the ministers “in the same format” every month at Matignon.

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