Auchan and Michelin plan to lay off several thousand people with the closure of several stores and factories. For François Ruffin, this is unacceptable and the State should impose itself and demonstrate a little more protectionism, like the United States or China.
The closure of several Auchan stores and two Michelin factories, with several thousand layoffs, is making people cringe. For François Ruffin, we should take more of the example of the protectionism demonstrated by the United States and China. At the RTL microphone, he denies being a Trumpist, but claims to be “protectionist” : “I do not want to close the borders, I demand regulation, I demand protection. I am protectionist, I am on import quotas.”
Concerning the Michelin factories which are going to close their doors, the deputy for Somme compares the presence of tires from Asia to an invasion of “locusts that arrive as if it were a natural phenomenon. It is not a natural phenomenon, it is a choice of our political leaders to be complicit” layoffs.
The government must say “That’s enough!”
For François Ruffin, the solution is government intervention. “You know, at the heart of the Covid crisis, we saw a powerful State. We saw a powerful State over citizens which said overnight ‘you no longer leave your home, you must fill out a form and so on. suite', and there, we have a State which will play the comedy of impotence on us” The MP insists that “the government must say with much more force 'enough!'” to factory and store closures which lead to layoffs.
Tuesday, November 5, Michel Barnier assured, before the Assembly, that he wanted “know” what Auchan and Michelin had done “with the public money given to them”. Auchan responded to AFP, ensuring that it had devoted part of this money to redistribution “purchasing power to its employees”.
published on November 7 at 10:10 a.m., Philippine Rouviere Flamand, 6Medias
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