The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said on Saturday, in an interview with Parisian, that his union “will support”, whoever it is, “the candidate of the Republican camp” who would face in the second round of the presidential election “a candidate of the extreme right”. “Whatever the candidate of the Republican camp, Emmanuel Macron, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, indicates Laurent Berger.
” Without ambiguity. The trade unions which would refuse to do so or would hesitate, would be at fault, “adds the leader of the CFDT, who is worried about the rise of the far right in the polls,” whether we are talking about Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan ”. If Emmanuel Macron faced Marine Le Pen again in the second round of the presidential election, Laurent Berger would “obviously” call for a vote for the outgoing president.
The CFDT will present its ideas
“We don’t need nostalgia or withdrawal, but a more just society, a new development model. Responding to social expectations is the best way to fight the extreme right, ”said the union official, who“ looks with fear ”at the rise of Eric Zemmour in the polls and his comments on immigration. Immigration, “it’s a subject that is being blown up. In the field, the employees do not tell us about it, ”he said. The CFDT “will not support a candidate” and will expose “from the beginning of November” its “ideas within the framework of (its) project of the” Pact of the power to live “”, he explains.
“There will be very concrete proposals and we will do a tour, meetings (…) We have ” candidate ” ideas for the next five-year term,” he continues. Asked about the government’s commitment income project for young people aged 16 to 25, on which the executive must decide shortly, Laurent Berger protested against “a great temptation to bury him and to do a sleight of hand. passes by making believe that it will be opened to 400,000 young people, which in reality corresponds to the existing systems ”.
“If this is the case, we will denounce it” because “it would be a very strong political fault”, he warns. Defending “the universal youth guarantee, created under the former five-year term”, which “works”, Laurent Berger wants its extension “to one million young people, with means of support and an allowance of the level of the RSA”.