The CFDT calls on Emmanuel Macron to call a “major social meeting”

Goal : “involve as many people as possible in the co-construction of decisions”. The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, on Tuesday April 26 asked the re-elected president Emmanuel Macron to organize a “great social gathering” in order to build a more just and ecological model of society.

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For Laurent Berger, who speaks in a forum at Worldit’s necessary “appease, (…) repair, (…) bring the country together” and for that set a “a clear course towards a new development model placing social progress, justice, respect for the environment and ‘live together’ at the heart of solutions”.

“Mr. President, you will not be able to meet these challenges alone. Call a meeting today with the social partners and the major associations”intimate the union leader.

“Call it what you want (conference, Grenelle, convention…), but launch this major social event now to change the method and involve as many people as possible in the co-construction of decisions.”

Lawrence Berger

in a column published by “Le Monde”

The LREM candidate owes his victory “to his supporters” but also “to the spirit of responsibility of many voters who do not share his program but above all reject the National Rally”. “They gave him their votes but not their votes. Mr. Macron must now listen to them”writes Laurent Berger.