The pension reform could allow the National Rally to pull the chestnuts out of the fire according to Laurent Berger. The outgoing secretary general of the CFDT fears that the formation led by Jordan Bardella will take advantage of “the distrust of institutions” and “social resentment” resulting from this political sequence.
For Laurent Berger, “it is now that we must 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 fight against the RN because it infuses, and once it infuses it’s like tea, you don’t go 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 was supported with this reform? Not executives who start work at 22 and had 43 years of contributions. But on the front and second line workers who were there during the 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 functions on June 21 “with 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 pursue “a profession that has an impact, with meaning” in a position in the private sector or an NGO. When asked about the political line that the left opposition should follow, Mr. Berger answered with laconic: “it’s not my problem”, defusing as he regularly does the hypothesis of a future entry into politics.