2023-04-19 12:10:59
He hangs up the apron. The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger announces that he will leave the head of the reformist union on June 21. The union official will leave his place to Marylise Léon, current number two of the confederation, he explains in the columns of the Mondethis Wednesday.
“I think that, on June 21, I will leave a CFDT which is going well”, declares Laurent Berger, highlighting a “maturely considered decision”. At the head of the CFDT since 2012, the 54-year-old trade unionist recalls that he had announced at the organization’s congress in June that he would leave during his term of office. “It’s neither a whim nor a choice dictated by current events”, he assures the Mondejudging it normal that the CFDT “renews itself”.
“Generating New Momentum”
The name of Marylise Leon, Deputy Secretary General since 2018, has been circulating for a long time to succeed him. “She is capable, with the team that will be around her, of giving new impetus,” says Laurent Berger, hailing a “dynamic” trade unionist who “has a strong understanding of the world of work”.
Laurent Berger refutes the idea that his departure, in the midst of a crisis linked to the pension reform, could weaken the social movement, believing that trade unionism “wins out of this period”. He also reaffirms that he will not get involved in politics, considering that “some of the Head of State’s supporters wanted to accredit this idea to [lui] to harm and to harm the CFDT”.
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