This is the best thing we could have for the moment

Plebiscites are not always noisy. Yesterday, at the end of a General Assembly which were invited 533 delegates of the members of the Medef (federations and territories), Laurence Parisot was re-elected without fever of 2005, which saw three candidates face and a charismatic President - ErnestAntoine Seillière - be ovation. After the vote unanimously to the Executive Council end of may, the score for Laurence Parisot has proven consistent with predictions, with 93.85 of the votes, or 30 abstentions and a participation rate that can be assimilated to mistrust (91,56, i.e. 488 voters). "I will do everything to not disappoint you," Laurence Parisot, who came to hold a speech akin less thanked a candidate program to a new plea for the company.

Under the new slogan displayed "company, we are all", Laurence Parisot was to take into consideration the UIMM, the powerful Federation of metallurgy, first contributor to the Medef, which had requested a refocusing of the Organization on economic. Yesterday, she seemed satisfied. "What mattered to me was to hear the word competitiveness, reacted Frederic Saint-Geours, President of the UIMM, after Laurence Parisot speech.". The Medef is put in order of battle for the next three years. This is the best thing we could have for the moment.

"Paw" societal

After being named President of the commission on social protection for the reform of pensions, Delegate General of the UIMM, Jean-François Pilliard, also made its entry to the Executive Board of the Medef, the title of the personalities described (in lieu of Yvon Jacob), while the other nine are renewed.

By opening the General Assembly on evidence from a panel of patterns of SMEs where each promoted the service rendered by "his" Medef or his Federation (read below), Laurence Parisot sought also to yesterday, responding to the crisis opened in December last by the departure of the Federation of food, which had found that the service rendered by the Organization was not the amount of the assessment.

For, while, paw societal in particularly economic intervention, she defended "fair competitiveness", set in his speech stressed: "promote equality of opportunities between countries, explicitly put respect for the man in the heart of the company, recognizing the irreplaceable creative force of the entrepreneurial spirit. "The choice before which is is not boost or austerity, but competitiveness or stagnation", at - it argued, repeating that "the crisis is not over" and that the "solution to the crisis the company".

Reforming Medicare

And if his speech yesterday addressing its members rather than to the public authorities, the Medef now, always in respect of the competitiveness necessary - which became a catch-all concept-, "initiate and accompany" the reform of health insurance and "support the necessary reduction in public spending."

Denouncing once again the 35 hours ("we will not stop not to make proposals to permanently fix the abracadabrant system"), the President of the Medef also clearly chose to go to the small rather than large, praising for "all small businesses" when it is sent no message to large groups - except a tribute to the "great captain of industry" Edouard Michelin.

If be enthusiastic, responses were consistent with the public, some holding the speech "adapted to the situation" (Bernard Spitz, FFSA) or "full of truth" (Jean-François Acker, Medef Alsace). The only dissonant voice was Sophie de Menthon, President of the employers association Ethic, which is was declared too late to be candidate. Guest surprised yesterday to the title of associate member of the Medef, she found the "mollifying" speech. " "Laurence had decided to take things a little high, to reflection," defended his side Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, always faithful, five years after further Laurence Parisot to succeed him.