“I really didn’t understand,” MP Renaissance said on Wednesday on France Inter. Former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne confided that she found it “incredible that one could imagine” that she “could have been homosexual and not said it”, while she was questioned about rumors which marked her political career.
“There are lots of politicians who have no problem saying they are homosexual,” she continued, assuring that if she had been, she would “have had no problem.” problem to say it. » “But there are little rumors that continue,” regretted the former Prime Minister who, when she was at the head of the government, was keen to preserve her private life. She considered that it was a question of “the vagaries of political life”.
She denounces sexism in politics
His successor at Matignon Gabriel Attal was delighted, in his general policy declaration before the National Assembly last January, to “be able to be Prime Minister while openly accepting his homosexuality”.
In a book published Wednesday (Twenty months in MatignonFlammarion editions), Élisabeth Borne looks back on her experience of power, marked by the painful pension and immigration reforms. She notably denounces sexism in politics. “It wasn’t easy,” she said. “We have the impression that there are two categories of Prime Ministers, men and women,” lamented Élisabeth Borne.
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