A new suitor declares himself in the race for the presidency of Medef (Movement of French companies). While the campaign to take the head of the employers’ union has been officially launched since Monday, the number two of the movement, Patrick Martin, announces his candidacy for this position for the next five years in the columns of Figaro.
After the vice-pretender of the employers’ organization, Dominique Carlac’h, it is therefore the turn of the current deputy president to run for the place currently occupied by Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux who must find his successor on July 6th.
The boss of the family ETI Martin Belaysoud entrusts to Figaro to embark on this campaign with “a lot of determination”. The latter, who had ultimately given up competing five years ago to join Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, wishes for the next term “to lead the fight for growth very clearly”. He recognizes that “it is an objective that is no longer unanimously accepted, with marked opposition between the generations”.
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To convince, the former president of Medef Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes also wants to rely on his record as number two in the movement. “We don’t have to be ashamed of what we’ve been doing for five years,” he says. He cites in particular “the 18 billion euros in production tax cuts and the reduction in the IS rate”.
But he will not be the only one able to defend the actions carried out during the previous mandate. The vice-president of the Medef and spokesperson, Dominique Carlac’h, is trying her luck at the head of the Medef and also intends to rely on the results of her five years spent in the union. Other current members could also try their luck.
It will be necessary to wait several weeks before knowing the final list of candidates who will have to collect by May 5 150 sponsorships, that is to say three times more than during the previous election. Knowing that each member of the general assembly of Medef (which is in a way the Parliament of the organization) can sponsor 3 candidates. Five years ago, nine leaders were on the starting line, seven had thrown in the towel along the way.
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