Macron appoints Elisabeth Borne as prime minister: that’s who she is

After weeks of waiting and indiscretions, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron has appointed his new premier, Elisabeth Borne

Macron’s party changes its name

The president of France immediately charged her with forming the new government. Borne is the first female premier in France after Edith Cresson, who was appointed 30 years ago by the socialist president François Mitterrand

The outgoing Minister of Labor, 61, is highly appreciated by the President of the French Republic because she is considered a connoisseur of the dossiers of the next five years – in particular the climate issue

Borne’s political career began in the mid-1980s at the Ministry of Infrastructure

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In the 1990s she became a counselor in the Ministry of Education with Lionel Jospin and, starting in 1992, with Jack Lang

Between 2008 and 2013 he worked with Bertrand Delanoe and Anne Hidalgo as general director of Urban Planning at the Paris Municipality, later leaving the capital to become prefect of the Poitou-Charentes and Vienne region.

During this period Borne has forged ties with the former president of the region, Segolene Royal, who, appointed in 2014 as Minister of Ecological Transition in Francois Hollande’s government, has chosen her as his cabinet director

In 2017 Borne became Minister of Transport, after Macron’s presidential victory

Two years later, the new premier took over the reins of the ecological transition

In July 2020, with the arrival of Jean Castex in Matignon, she remained in the government team, assuming the role of Minister of Labor