Melanie Faure
08:51, 17 May 2022modified to
10:17 a.m., May 17, 2022
While Elisabeth Borne was appointed Monday by Emmanuel Macron, the legislative elections to be held on June 12 and 19 could change the situation. Will the head of state face cohabitation? For Henri Guaino, guest of Europe Matin on Tuesday, the cohabitations “were a breath of fresh air”.
Guest of Europe Matin Tuesday, the essayist and former adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, reacted to the appointment of Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister. He notably mentioned the role of the Head of State who must “say at certain times that national unity is worth more than government policy and even that [sa] policy”, he estimated on Europe 1.
“The cohabitations were a breath in the system”
“The president could have said, ‘I’m going to be a president who presides and we’re going to bring together all those who are ready to put those who are divisive on hold and who are ready to work together to solve the most pressing problems'”, a he continued while adding that the quinquennium has “disrupted the institutions of the Fifth Republic”.
For Henri Guaino, the five-year term “has changed the nature of the post of Prime Minister”. “It changed the Prime Minister’s perception of the nature of his function”, declared the former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy. “He takes care of the daily and the interministerial. He has a huge task,” he says.
Concerning the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, he mentioned the various past cohabitations which “have been a breath of fresh air in the system and allow during the presidential mandate to change government and policy”.
As a reminder, the first cohabitation took place from March 1986 to May 1988, under François Mitterrand (PS) and his Prime Minister Jacques Chirac (RPR).
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