Medef president Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux is sounding the alarm if Nupes wins the legislative elections. This program “will lead us directly to a huge recession, and if it does not change course in the middle, to bankruptcy”, he launched on Europe 1 on Wednesday. According to him, “the program of Nupes is the program of La France insoumise, neither more nor less, except for a few commas”.
By claiming to place himself “only on the economic level”, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux dismantles in rule the orientations desired by the left. “Freezing of prices, massive increase in the minimum wage: all small businesses will find themselves in a terrible squeeze since they will no longer be able to increase their prices while their raw materials are increasing, gas bills are increasing and on the other side , their salaries will increase”, he explains, adding: “There the first reflex is I stop hiring, I put an end to all my fixed-term contracts, all my interims”.
According to him, “the French are not going to consume, contrary to what Jean-Luc Mélenchon says, they are going to keep their savings quite simply because they are going to be afraid”.
“Absolutely massive cost” of retirement at 60
Another sensitive subject, the return to retirement at 60. “If this does not have a direct impact on finances, it has an absolutely massive cost between 80 to 100 billion in the long term” and push “immediately France’s interest rates will increase”.
According to him, “the reality is that Jean-Luc Mélenchon knows that this program is not applicable, he is demagoguery”. In the event of a Nupes majority in the National Assembly, the leader of the employers plans, as in 1981, “a program on the left, very on the left”, but “after 18 months we change Prime Minister and we come back to reality because unfortunately the market economy has fundamentals”.