The policy of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, "
opens a boulevard to the National Rally
", judges Sophie Binet, the new secretary general of the CGT following the promulgation overnight from Friday to Saturday of the law carrying the reform retirements.
“[Emmanuel]
Macron was not elected to reform pensions, he was elected to block the National Rally.
And he does quite the opposite: with his policy, he opens a boulevard to the National Rally
", criticized the N ° 1 of the CGT in an interview with the newspapers of the regional press group Ebra which brings together titles like
Le Progrès
or
Les Latest News from Alsace
.
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“
If there was a Macron-Le Pen second round tomorrow, with a policy of this violence, the trade unions would have great difficulty in adopting the same positions as in the past
”, she continued before adding , "
we will always say that the ideas of the extreme right are the most dangerous for the country because they put the workers in opposition to each other
".
Judging that Emmanuel Macron “
is becoming the president of chaos
”, Sophie Binet praised the union unity that she wishes to pursue beyond the anti-retirement mobilization.
Unity “
will leave traces.
The CGT carries in its DNA the desire for union unity, because united unions and employees are stronger.
We want to make this unity last beyond the question of pensions to weigh more strongly against the government and employers
”.
Sophie Binet, who welcomes around 30,000 new applications for membership of the CGT since the beginning of the year, also claims more peaceful relations with the Nupes while the relationship between her predecessor Philippe Martinez and the rebellious manager Jean- Luc Mélenchon were notoriously bad.
We need “
clear, calm relations, respectful of the roles and strengths of each.
And in this conflict, it was important to be able to work with Nupes, especially on the shared initiative referendum.
But the mobilization would not have had this magnitude if it had been initiated by political organizations
,” she explained.