Pascale Coton, vice-president of the CFTC, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of Medef, as well as the economist Patrick Artus and the political scientist Jérôme Fourquet debated economic and social emergencies on Thursday, April 28, at dawn of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron.
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The trade unionist, the boss, the economist and the political scientist are worried about inflation and its impact on purchasing power and public accounts.
The political landscape
Jérôme Fourquet: [The 2017 presidential election was not an accident. The electoral landscape is late late with the country’s economic, social and cultural reality, which has been deeply transformed in a few decades. The Socialist Party and the Republicans only represent 6.5 % of the votes cast. A new duopoly sets in, putting the Republic on the move and the national rally. It is not as structuring and aggregator as in the past. Thus, melenchonist France is not recognized either in one or the other.
In addition, this duopoly features a millefeuille company, with a top that looks at the bottom, and a bottom that looks at the top: 74 % of executives and intellectual professions in the second round [of the April presidential election 2022] voted for Emmanuel Macron, 65 % of workers chose Marine Le Pen. This situation is complicated to manage politically, socially and economically, in a context where concerns around purchasing power are very strong.
Pascale Coton: The fracture between city and countryside that we have denounced for years is reflected in the result of the election. Emmanuel Macron achieves his best scores in major cities, Marine Le Pen in the countryside, where residents are having difficulty going to work and are often faced with a clear degradation of public services. We say constantly to the employee that there will be a deficit of retirement, social security … How do you want him to project himself properly and positively with his children confronted with a damaged school in recent years, and an organization Chambered work?
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux: Paris voted 85 % for Emmanuel Macron, Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, the village of General de Gaulle, gave for the first time a majority at the National Rally [with 56.73 % voices]. The underlying of this situation is first of all economic, before being identity. The more a territory is deindustrialized and losing their jobs, the more it votes for the extremes. A datar must be reborn [Interministerial delegation for regional planning and modern regional attractiveness, capable of thinking of regional planning and regional attractiveness. The development of economic growth in medium -sized cities that have no specificities is a major subject.
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