Unions and employers’ organizations have called with one voice on parliamentarians to place themselves in a logic of construction while the economic and social emergencies are increasing.
One calls forcollective intelligence“, the other to the “responsibility”: trade unions and employers’ organizations are worried about seeing the political game blocked for lack of a parliamentary majority, while social and economic emergencies are piling up. The general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, sounded the alarm in L’Opinion on Tuesday: “if the political theater becomes an exclusive place of confrontation, we will pay dearly for it“. The number one of the first French union appeals “the responsibility of all parliamentarians, so that they place themselves in a logic of building solutions, not in partisan games“. “A deputy is not there to resist, but to build“, he insists.
Read alsoCFDT: Laurent Berger is already preparing his succession
“The status quo is not an option“, told the World the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. President of the CPME, François Asselincalls for collective intelligence” the deputies, while “decisions cannot be made without parliamentary activity“. “The country is like a business: if you look at your navel, the competitors carve cruppers for you“, he worries to AFP. “Parliamentarians must get to work together, assume their responsibilities, discuss and find the most suitable solutions», Echoes Dominique Métayer of the U2P.
Rule by ordinances
For Cyril Chabanier, of the CFTC, it is not “not possible that simply by a political game everything is blocked“. “It is absolutely necessary that we find solutions in relation to the inflation which is high“, he said on Radio Classique this week. President of the CCI France, Alain Di Crescenzo sees in the political situation “a serious source of concern“. “In a complex situation, we need to decide, to move forward, we need a course (…) We must find the possibility of legislating quickly“, he enjoins, particularly concerned about the future of pension reform.
Read alsoPensions: social partners often more responsible than the State
The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron said to himself on Friday “very confident» on the fact of being able to build «constructive majorities” with “all governing parties“. But apart from LREM renamed Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons, all the other political groups at this stage are part of the opposition.
The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, has unlike his counterpart Laurent Berger “no advice to giveto parliamentarians. He points out, not without irony, that the executive “can proceed by prescription», for example to impose «the alignment of branch minima on the minimum wage“. “There are things that can be regulated by prescription, and since Mr. Macron loves prescriptions, well that can be done“, he said during a press conference on Tuesday in reference to the Macron orders which amended the Labor Code in 2017.
Increased role of social partners
For François Hommeril, of the CFE-CGC, the absence of a majority can encourage the President of the Republic to turn “towards the social partners to seek a social consensus in order to then impose it on the political consensus“. “I’m still waiting to see“, he relativizes, however. “The speech of the President of the Republic (Wednesday, editor’s note) does not encourage me to be very optimistic (…): he has not changed his vision“, he told AFP.
Read alsoAfter the legislative elections, Macron wants to engage the National Council for Refoundation
Medef’s number two, Patrick Martin, sees an increased role for the social partners in the new political situation. “Our conviction is that the social partners will assume their responsibilities, will not enter into political games but will assume their convictions in a constructive way: they will have to be considered more and better, consequently“, he wrote to AFP. The Medef will express the “next week, after debate of (its) authorities“, he promises.
SEE ALSO – Relative majority: the situation is “terribly banal at European level”, assures Macron