This chemical engineer, president of the executives’ union since 2016, was re-elected hands down, with 93.31% of the vote.
François Hommeril, 61, was re-elected hands down on Wednesday at the head of the CFE-CGC, executives’ union, for a new three-year term, assuring the activists that he had not said “his last word“. This chemical engineer, geologist by training, president of the CFE-CGC since 2016, was elected with the secretary general Jean-Philippe Tanghe and the new treasurer Farida Karad on the first day of the Congress.
Out of 508 votes cast, the trio received 474 votes (25 white and 9 uncast), giving a score of 93.31%. This is more than in 2019 (91.79% of the vote) and than in 2016 (90.83%). “I haven’t said my last word!“, launched François Hommeril shortly before the election, highlighting “an unsurpassable desire to carry the CFE-CGC’s ambition to become even stronger for three years».
After criticizing Emmanuel Macron’s interview with CGT number one Philippe Martinez earlier, judging that the head of state was “gone to the moonhe again lambasted the pension reform as being “the overdose of supposedly courageous reforms“. He emphasized having from the startdenounced his suspicious and unbalanced motivation», «his precarious argument» et «the injustice of its impact».
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“Unique Thought Objectors”
And to attack those whoare installed in all circles of power and distribute their prescriptions signed by Doctor McKinsey to leaders in full “bad trip” ideological. As if nothing had changed for 40 years“. Regarding the union line, he felt that the term “reformist” had been “misguided, emptied of its progressive substance by political decision-makers with a binary vision for whom a union is summoned to be either an unrepentant protester or a zealous accompanist“. François Hommeril claims “a third way: that of being single-minded objectors».
The Congress will continue on Thursday with a morning of discussions on socio-economic themes as well as the election of national secretaries and national delegates of the union. The delegates, including François Hommeril, will take a break at midday to demonstrate near the Palais des Congrès, as part of the ninth day of inter-union mobilization. Founded in 1944, the General Confederation of Executives (CGC), which became the CFE-CGC in 1981, is the fourth largest union in France and claims 160,000 members.