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Borne takes up Barnier on the protection granted to ex-Prime Ministers

An end of inadmissibility. Targeted by a potential motion of censure on Monday, December 2, Prime Minister Michel Barnier, during an intervention on the TF1 news last Tuesday, pleaded for a “simpler” and more “state lifestyle”. sober”, asking “an effort from former ministers and former Prime Ministers” in order to set an example and, consequently, save money.

Guest on 3 Sunday December 1, Élisabeth Borne, former Prime Minister from May 2022 to January 2024, showed her disagreement with the current tenant of Matignon. “What is taken care of, when you are a former Prime Minister, is a car which accompanies the protection, the security which is assured to you,” she recalled.

“If Michel Barnier thinks that I don’t have security problems…” she adds, bitterly.

As Le Figaro takes up, Élisabeth Borne points out the reforms that are “not all popular”, including the pension reform, which she carried out during her mandate. The one who is now a member of Parliament for argued that “protection and security seem appropriate” to her situation.

According to Le Parisien, these protection missions would cost 23,000 euros per police officer, and their elimination would save 4 million euros annually.

On Tuesday, Élisabeth Borne had already expressed her differences of point of view with the current executive, stressing that she “agreed with nothing” concerning the government's draft budget. “I do not agree with the revenue part, nor the expenditure part, neither of the social security budget, nor of the State. I do not agree with anything. And not with the method either”, she tackled.

Original article published on BFMTV.com

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