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For the Secretary General of the CGT, the speech of the President of the Republic upstream of the Council of Ministers is in line with all those he has held since his election, which bring together “little contemptuous sentences vis-à-vis population”.
Abundance “this is surely the situation that the President of the Republic is experiencing with his friends, but it is not the reality of millions of citizens”, reacted Thursday August 25 on franceinfo Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the CGT. Ahead of the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron spoke of “the end of abundance” about global warming. The president spoke in particular of raw materials, technological products and not necessarily of financial abundance.
“He weighs his words when he speaks the President of the Republic, analyzed Philippe Martinez. He sends messages. He talks a lot and immediately behind he wants to attack the unemployed once again by reducing unemployment insurance. This is the typical speech that the President of the Republic has held since he was elected. These are little contemptuous phrases vis-à-vis the population and which show his political aim.
While many French people are in difficulty, “Corporate profits are rising indecently”, estimated the secretary general of the CGT. He also recalled that the law on purchasing power passed in July “Never talk about salary. There are two worlds that come together in this country.”
“There is abundance for the few. When corporate profits are rising indecently and at the same time there is a law passed by the majority with its friends on the right and the far right where one does not don’t talk about salary, there are two worlds that rub shoulders pic.twitter.com/ixuBLp1M17
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Emmanuel Macron has “forgot the message of the presidential election with the abstention rate. He wants to continue to impose sacrifices on the same.” Philippe Martinez insisted on the question of salaries. “The President of the Republic refuses on principle to talk about wages in a country where wages are low. This is the project he talks about the least.”
“The social climate has been tense since the spring, there have never been so many wage strikes.”
Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGTat franceinfo
TotalEnergies has been regularly singled out for its last few weeks since it more than doubled its net profit in the second quarter, to 5.7 billion dollars, against 2.2 billion in the same quarter of 2021. Philippe Martinez also cited Sanofi among businesses “who fill their pockets. We cannot accept that while the majority continue to make the sacrifices imposed on them, others fill their pockets. We need a mechanism that taxes from profits at a certain level. We need another distribution of wealth.”