Many dream about it out loud, beginning with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Gabriel Attal. However not him. The day after the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann talked about the identify of Laurent Berger as a possible Prime Minister.
Marylise Léon’s predecessor on the head of the CFDT is “a determine of civil society who’s able to appeasement, who’s the antithesis of the present president, who is not going to play with the establishments, who will reconcile the French, who will carry a venture of social justice and ecology,” mentioned the pinnacle of the Place publique-PS listing within the European elections. However the one who now heads the Mutualist Institute for the Atmosphere and Solidarity of Crédit Mutuel had not seen.
Lower than per week earlier than the primary spherical of legislative elections, the previous commerce unionist, who distinguished himself particularly through the battle in opposition to Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, this time spoke out. And never just a bit since he spoke at size this Monday in “Le Monde” and on France 2.
“I’m in retreat from public life”
He mentioned repeatedly on this event that no, he doesn’t dream of Matignon. “The query doesn’t come up. Everybody is aware of, I’m in retreat from public life. I’ve neither the vocation nor the will to reinvest in public life. If some folks assume that Matignon pursuits me, I can guarantee you that my present life utterly satisfies me,” mentioned Laurent Berger, responding to a query within the occasion that the New Widespread Entrance emerges victorious from the legislative elections on July 7. “It’s not my need,” he insisted on France 2.
However that does not imply that Laurent Berger could not be a recourse. The one who may embody a substitute for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who regardless of his recognition at half mast intends to occupy the place of head of presidency within the occasion of a victory for the left within the legislative elections? Or, within the occasion of defeat on July 7, a candidate for the 2027 presidential election?
Mélenchon “tries to blow all the things up”
“He can be very comfortable if one other resolution emerged, however he isn’t closing any doorways,” notes an observer who is aware of him properly. Understanding that the shift would nonetheless be tough to make within the face of its former group, significantly attentive to distinguishing political and union dedication, and which retains a burning reminiscence of the victory of François Mitterrand in 1981, wherein many cedetists had been invested.
Laurent Berger says out loud what many on the left are considering: the answer can’t be Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “We’ve got to cease these tales. […] “He is making an attempt to blow all the things up. , there can be chaos-makers all over the place. What is required is appeasement, reconciliation and the flexibility to speak to one another and compromise,” he careworn on France 2.
One factor after one other, nevertheless. For the previous union chief, Matignon will not be the topic at this time. “The topic, now, the primary emergency, is to keep away from the RN” which “leads us to a useless finish”. It’s “the France of worry of downgrading, of invisibility […] not the France of options and even much less the France of fraternity, united, peaceable, respectful of variations”, says this “citizen very nervous about his nation”. The RN is “the antithesis of the values of the Republic and represents a hazard for our democracy”, he provides.
The RN “leads us in the direction of a useless finish”
The previous chief of the CFDT takes up the place of the central union, which “places all its power into explaining why the RN is a hazard”, with out giving any voting directions, not like the CGT which, this time, known as for a vote for the New Widespread Entrance. “My best want is that candidates apart from these of the RN accumulate the utmost variety of votes and that the variety of far-right deputies is as little as attainable.”
It asserts itself in step with the positioning of the CFDT as a result of “it isn’t the position of a commerce union group to provide voting directions apart from these […] to vote in opposition to the far proper.” Together with stating that on July 7, within the occasion of a three-way race, the candidate who is available in third place should withdraw if the RN’s victory had been attainable. However he goes a step additional, stating that “summarizing the alliance made on the left to LFI is a gross abuse” and explaining that he doesn’t “put an equal signal between the far proper and the far left.” Whereas noting, nevertheless, that sure parts “usually are not clear” on the themes of secularism and anti-Semitism.