The RN can take advantage of “the mistrust of institutions” and “social resentment” fueled by the pension reform, judged on Sunday the outgoing secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, according to whom “it is now that we must carry out the fight against the RN” to avoid “a democratic catastrophe in 2027”.
Before his departure from the head of the CFDT on June 21, Mr. Berger said he “felt on the ground” that the RN could reap the fruits of the unsuccessful social movement of recent months.
“Catastrophe is possible in 2027. But now is the time to fight the RN because it infuses, and once it has infused it’s like tea, you don’t come back to it. clear water”, he estimated in the program “Political Questions” of France Inter, franceinfo and Le Monde.
The RN “surfs on mistrust in the institutions. However, the period that we have just gone through has been deadly for the institutions”, with the exception of trade unionism, he judged.
“The second breeding ground of the RN is social resentment. Who has been pressed with this reform? Not the executives who start working at 22 and had 43 years of contributions. But on the front and second line workers who were there during confinement and already had a propensity to vote for fear of the future for the RN”, he lamented.
After ten years in office, Mr. Berger will leave his post on June 21 “in great serenity” to the current number two of the union, Marylise Léon.
“There will be no guardian shadow,” he assured. Mr. Berger says he wants to exercise “a job that has an impact, meaning” in a position in the private sector or an NGO.
To questions about the political line that the left-wing opposition should follow, Mr. Berger replied tersely: “it’s not my problem”, defusing as he regularly does the hypothesis of a future entry into policy.
06/18/2023 15:06:24 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
