A new candidate in the race for the presidency of Medef. In the person of Pierre Brajeux, the deputy president of the French Security Federation, who declared himself to AFP on Monday.
“My deep conviction is that the wind has picked up, the sea has deepened and that we need a change of course,” said the putative successor to Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who had already competed in 2018. to lead the first French employers’ organization and had rallied during the campaign to Patrick Martin. Faced with economic, political and social upheavals, “we must be in the momentum”, according to Pierre Brajeux, who will be opposed in particular to the current deputy president of Medef Patrick Martin and to the vice-president and spokesperson Dominique Carlac’ h.
Implicit criticism of Roux de Bézieux
For Pierre Brajeux, who is president of Torann, a security company with nearly 3,000 employees, “we must not be spectators, that is to say we must not simply be in the commentary or in the reaction. “. In an implicit criticism of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux and the current management of the Medef, Pierre Brajeux hopes “that we give back all its place to the company and that we are not simply waiting for proposals that would come from the exterior”.
Pierre Brajeux wants to campaign around three axes: simplification, the value of work and taxation. “The software on which we have been living for years means that companies have ever more constraints, ever more checks, ever more sanctions. We have to change software,” he says.
Regarding the changes in the world of work, he considers that it is up to the employers’ organization “to take matters into their own hands to reflect on this and see how companies are adapting to changes in society”. Finally, “we must lighten the burdens weighing on companies”, because “we cannot be in an open world and have French companies which have a weight on their shoulders which is clearly greater than our neighbors”, affirms -he.
Gather 150 referrals
To be able to compete, the contenders for the presidency of Medef must by the beginning of May gather 150 sponsorships among 550 members of the general assembly of the organization. Each of these members can grant a maximum of three referrals. The campaign will end with an electronic ballot on July 6 in which 1,120 members of the organization’s elective assembly will participate.
