An LFI victory in the 2027 presidential election would cause the president of Medef to “flee physically” or “financially”

The president of Medef Patrick Martin estimated on Wednesday that an LFI victory in the 2027 elections would make certain bosses, including himself, “flee” or that he would in any case be demotivated to continue running his company in France. When he was asked on LCI if a victory for rebellious France in 2027 “would scare away the bosses”, Patrick Martin, also president of a family distribution company for industry and construction, replied without hesitation “yes, of course”, before qualifying: “it could mean fleeing physically, financially…”.

“This would be my case,” he continued, “in the sense that we would raise the pencil and say to ourselves that we are in a country which is becoming horribly dangerous: why would we work, take risks by investing our assets, would we often jeopardize our personal and family life by working like damned people only to get nothing back in the end and for it to go into a bottomless pit which already exists but which would be largely dug by LFI?”

The president of Medef also declared having seen “good and bad” in the economic proposals of Marine Le Pen, who presented on Tuesday a savings plan of 140 billion euros over five years. The good is “what is planned to reduce production taxes, therefore restoring competitiveness (...) it is going in the right direction”. But he also saw “significant gray areas”, “quantifications which are a bit wishful thinking (...), a lot of approximations”, particularly on pensions. “Of course there are one or more candidates who can turn France around,” he assured, “but it must be done on the basis of a clear contract, taking the risk of saying things (even if) it goes through some tests.”

While Sébastien Lecornu must speak on Wednesday evening to discuss in particular the movement of high school students and the rise in fuel prices, Patrick Martin expects the Prime Minister to “recall some principles of democracy, freedom of expression but also of authority, because in the general situation in which it finds itself, the country cannot afford additional chaos in the streets”. “We are not telling young people enough about the careers of the future, or on the other hand, about the careers that are threatened, about the training they should choose,” he lamented.