On his second day visiting Amiens on Friday, Emmanuel Macron will meet former employees of Whirlpool in the morning. He had supported the plan to take over their business in 2017, a year before a bankruptcy recovery left them behind.

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This Thursday, he was part of the procession of about sixty people who marched through the streets of Amiens to meet the president, visiting the city for two days. Farid Balloudj, former employee of Whirlpool, is waiting for answers today and will be received by Emmanuel Macron, along with other former employees, on Friday morning.

"I wanted to denounce our situation vis-à-vis a company that completely failed and all the promises that Emmanuel Macron made us when he came in 2017," says the former welder, who was 22 years old. seniority at Whirlpool. In 2017, the head of state supported the project to take over the plant by WN and Nicolas Decayeux. A year later, the factory was in receivership and Farid, dismissed with a simple compensation of 1,000 euros. "I'm going to ask him why there was no follow-up! Why we were left abandoned like this," indignant the former employee.

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