Paris (AFP)
The high commissioner for pensions, Jean-Paul Delevoye, who has resigned, is a "man of dialogue" who knew his files perfectly and carried them with "conviction", greeted several union officials on Monday, however wind up against the proposed government reform.
"It must be very difficult for him. He is a man of dialogue. He carried with a conviction that we cannot blame him for the government project", reacted the secretary general of Force Ouvrière (FO), Yves Veyrier , on LCI. "I like Mr. Delevoye (as) a person, but that is not the subject," he added, recalling that his union was against the project.
This resignation "falls badly", judged on his side Laurent Escure, from Unsa, also on LCI. He said "hope" that the successor of Mr. Delevoye "has the same technical knowledge and the same respect for the social partners". In any case, stressed Mr. Escure, "arbitration and dialogue are (now) with the Elysée and Matignon" and "the high commissioner was not in the foreground".
Before the announcement of the resignation of Mr. Delevoye, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger also praised the "loyalty" of the high commissioner.
While saying that he was "dumbfounded" and "dumbfounded" by the revelations on the undeclared mandates of the government "Monsieur Retraites", Mr. Berger stressed that "the consultation with him was loyal, there was a confrontation of smart ideas, to try to get things done. " "He never caught us in traitors," he said on France Info.
The controversy over the undeclared mandates of Mr. Delevoye harms "obviously" his "credibility", but "on the merits, (...) he knows the subject very well, he is the one who knows best the positions of the different interlocutors, "said Mr. Berger.
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