Some will see this as a sign that relations between the President of the Republic and the country’s leading trade union organization are not about to improve. Emmanuel Macron has still not made contact with the new secretary general of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, since her official appointment a week ago. “No sound, no images, zero contact since I took over as head of the CFDT,” said Laurent Berger’s successor on BFMTV on Tuesday morning.
Marylise Léon was not indignant, believing that the contact “will be made”. “There is no reason for the President of the Republic, especially if as he says today he is open to consultation, not to speak with the secretary general of the first French (trade union) organization”, a she explained. The union official confided that she had received “many, many messages from activists who are extremely happy that (she) takes on this responsibility”, before saying that “for (her), it is the essential”.
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Like her predecessor, Marylise Léon carefully avoided the staging of a face-to-face meeting with the President of the Republic, insisting on the “collective” nature of the organization she leads. From now on. In the absence of a mark of interest from Emmanuel Macron, Marylise Léon received a message from Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. “We will see each other as is customary between a prime minister and a general secretary (of the CFDT),” she predicted.
