Elisabeth Borne defends the importance of “finding the path to institutional stability” during the transfer of power to the Ministry of Education

“I will not pretend this morning that I had planned for a long time to find myself in front of you,” admitted the one who left Matignon at the start of the year.

The new Minister of Education Elisabeth Borne called for “finding the path to institutional stability”. On the occasion of the transfer of power to the ministry, Tuesday December 24, the former Prime Minister insisted on the “need to create alliances between republican political forces” to justify his decision to join the government of François Bayrou. “By proposing that I join the government as Minister of State, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister wished to make Education, Higher Education and Research the priority of government action”she added.

“I will not pretend this morning that I had planned for a long time to find myself before you”admitted the one who left Matignon at the start of the year, replaced by the former Minister of Education Gabriel Attal. But she explained that she responded “positively” to François Bayrou due to “particular and serious context”: “A new page is opening. This calls for the responsibility of each and every one of us to find the path to institutional stability”she said. “I have often said in recent months how much I believe in the importance of the central bloc and what it embodies, how much I believe in the need for alliances to emerge between republican political forces”she added. If she admitted not being “a specialist” educational and research topics, she judged “legitimate” to make it a government priority, because “the school is the foundation of the Republic”.