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Élisabeth Borne. Photo: Jacques Paquier/Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org – French President Emmanuel Macron has named Élisabeth Borne to be the country’s new prime minister—the first woman to hold the position in 30 years.
“I dedicate this nomination to all the little girls in France, to tell them ‘follow your dreams,’ ” said Borne, 61. “Nothing should stop the fight for women’s place in our society.”
Borne held three different ministerial positions—transportation, environment and labor—during Macon’s first term in office. Macron secured a second term after facing a run-off contest with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier even further to the right.
An engineer, Borne served as director of strategy for the French railway company SNCF. She also worked in various local and national governmental departments.
Her father, Joseph Bornstein, was a Polish Jewish refugee who fled from Belgium to France in 1940 and joined the French resistance against Nazi forces in Europe. He was later deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his father and his youngest brother were killed upon arrival.
