The employer organization found, Monday, that the Economic Program of Marine Le Pen was at risk of “placing the country in a dead end”.
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After the CFDT, the MEDEF brought Monday 11 April its support for the candidacy of Emmanuel Macron, qualified the day before against Marine Le Pen for the second round of the presidential election. The Executive Board of the employer organization found “unanimously” that the outgoing President’s Economic Program was “the most favorable for ensuring the growth of the economy and employment” in France, even if he includes gaps “.
In the opposite direction, if M me Le Pen was elected, the MEDEF dreads a “degradation of trust” of economic agents, likely to cause a decline “investments and job creations ” In addition, “the very strong and unfunded rise in public spending could place the country in a dead end”. “The Economic Program of Marine Le Pen would lead the country to win over its neighbors and to put it on the sidelines of the European Union,” said the Medef.
In 2017, in similar circumstances, the President of the Medef then, Pierre Gattaz, had already arranged the alarm. “We are now behind the Emmanuel Macron candidate, in any case at the economic and social terms. There is no shadow of a hesitation,” he said, presenting a victory of Marine Le Pen as A scenario “that would be really catastrophic”.
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Five years later, this warning was not self-evident. In recent weeks, Geoffroy Roux of Bézieux, the President of the employer organization since 2018, has consulted a lot of the barons of the federations in order to determine whether the Organization had to strike again at the national rally (RN), in the hypothesis of a qualification of M me le pen in the final.
The opinions seemed a priori shared. First, according to some participants, unlike 2017, the NRN candidate had rather successfully hearing on February 21, when she came to a bare partner, at the same time as Valérie Pécresse (Republicans) or Fabien. ROUSSEL (Communist Party). M me Le Pen promised a decline in production taxes and the “freedom to create and undertake”.
Major difference from 2017, the populist candidate renounced his project of “Frexit”, in other words withdrawal from France of the European Union. However, the disappearance of this red cloth was not enough to reassure the patronage on the risk of isolation of France, when the RN also intends to reduce the country’s contribution to the European budget or to control imports from Other EU countries.
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