faced with “a seriously damaged democracy”, Sophie Binet calls for “an urgent change of course”

The general secretary of the CGT was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo” on Tuesday.

The day after the resignation of Élisabeth Borne, Sophie Binet loudly states that she expects nothing from the reshuffle. “Today, Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term is a shipwreck, it’s not with patches that we’re going to repair the Titanic,” quips the general secretary of the CGT on Tuesday January 9 on Franceinfo. The appointment of the new Prime Minister is expected “late morning”specifies the entourage of the President of the Republic to franceinfo.

Elisabeth Borne “leaves after twenty-three 49.3, after a pension reform imposed by force against public opinion, the street, Parliament” And “after a law on immigration written under the dictation of the National Rally“, summarizes Sophie Binet. If the former head of government “behaved like a soldier towards Emmanuel Macron”she nevertheless recognizes “qualities” : “he is someone rigorous and upright, in the dialogue, it was rather useful”.

It prevents, “the results are not good”. “This is the assessment of Emmanuel Macron, of a damaged democracy”, she judges. “We can clearly see that today, he is the one who decides everything, and it is indeed a democratic problem”, she emphasizes. This redesign is no exception: it “decides everything, down to the composition of the Prime Minister’s cabinet, up to the composition of the government that the Prime Minister is normally supposed to compose.”

The names of Gabriel Attal or even Sébastien Lecornu are circulating to replace Élisabeth Borne, but for the trade unionist, this is not a subject. “The debate is not the name, it’s the content of politics”, she believes. Gold, “Emmanuel Macron is in complete denial of the catastrophic situation and the abyss into which he is leading the country. An urgent change of course is needed.” “I expect, I wish, I call for a change in policy”she insists.