Succeeding Philippe Martinez, this expert in gender equality has become, at 41, the 16th general secretary of the CGT but also the first woman in this position since the creation of the union, 128 years ago! Sophie Binet also succeeds railway workers, postal workers or metallurgists, such as her predecessor, the new leader is ” the first “executive” to hold this position “, underline Release.
Hats off to Humanity. The communist daily, in the columns of which Sophie Binet held the pen, notes that, in her first speech, yesterday, at the Congress which elected her, the new head of the CGT warned Emmanuel Macron that his union will indeed demand the ” withdrawal” from the pension reform, and that there would be “no mediation”.
With Sophie Binet, the CGT wants to become a struggle union again », warns Le Figaro. This conservative daily stresses that as soon as the announcement of her election was made public, Sophie Binet sang a song with the audience, saying ” Emmanuel Macron, if you continue, it will make everything dark at home “. For Le Figaro“ it is a way of reaching out to this CGT at the forefront in the fight against pension reform, in open conflict with the outgoing management “.
Macron, the Untraceable Chamber
During his last televised intervention, Emmanuel Macron, who does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, wanted to expand his relative majority. Can the president hope to expand it with the reinforcement of the Les Républicains party? Provisional answer to read inThe Parisian. According to this newspaper, among Les Républicains, a majority remains “hostile” to such an enlargement. Among its figureheads, there are certainly “the pros”, and The Parisian cites only three, the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the former minister, Rachida Dati and the former president of the party, Jean-François Copé. But the other great figures of this right-wing party cited by this daily are “against”.
Evoking an agreement with Emmanuel Macron, a senior executive of LR considers in The Parisian that ” they are fables. The macronists will do as always: pretend. Pretending to show goodwill… “. And he warns: if you poach 5 or 6 deputies individually, you will radicalize the other 50 “. A tenor from LR questions. “ Who would like to ride the Titanic now? “. In this newspaper, the head of LR in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix, bids in these terms: “ The more time passes, the less the Macron star blinks “.
Conversely, those around Nicolas Sarkozy explain to Parisian that ” it is a conviction more than ever rooted in him. The facts show that it is necessary “. But as this newspaper notes, the constructive camp remains largely in the minority “, while an LR deputy polled by a member of the government retorts that among LR voters, “ the hatred of Macron is too high” to consider a collaboration, reports this daily, according to which Olivier Marleix said to Nicolas Sarkozy several weeks ago:” Even if you were at Matignon, it wouldn’t take more than 10 deputies “.
Lafarge, nest of spies
These shocking statements from the former CEO of the French cement manufacturer Lafarge. According to Bruno Lafont, who speaks for the first time since his indictment for financing a terrorist enterprise, Lafarge has been infiltrated by the French secret services.
It’s in the newspaper Release confides the ex-boss of Lafarge. Indicted, along with a dozen other former executives of the group, for having financed the terrorist group Daesh via the Jalabiya factory in Syria, and maintained commercial relations with the Islamic State, Bruno Lafont evokes in this interview “ a special relationship between the French State and its services, and Lafarge (…) One of the reasons why the State took an interest in us is that the site of the factory was really a strategic place for the anti-terrorist coalition and for France. This is why, I believe, the authorities encouraged us, at the very least, to maintain our activities in Syria. Says the man who ran the cement manufacturer until 2015. If the company was infiltrated, it is without my knowledge, said Bruno Lafont to Libé (…) I did not know anything about payments to terrorist groups and state activities in our factory “.