Emmanuel Macron assured Friday in Amiens to have "told the truth to Whirlpool" by not promising to "keep the company", just before his visit to the factory in difficulty, in the inter-two rounds of the 2017 presidential election. "Did I say: we will all save you, we will keep the company? No," said the head of state, who had visited the plant site a few hours later his rival of the presidential Marine Le Pen. "I said: those who tell you that lie to you," he continued, before adding a few minutes before returning to the scene: "I told them: we will commit to you".
"It's not the fault of the state"
Emmanuel Macron, a native of Amiens, had surrendered five months after his election in Whirlpool with a buyer, largely helped by the state. But this company (WN), the industrial picard Nicolas Decayeux, was liquidated in August 2019, for lack of commercial opportunities. She then employed 182 people. "There was a first project but it was not at the end.It is not the fault of the State or the services of the State," pleaded the President of the Republic. "The state is there with local communities to help train or reform, find other employers and help find a bridge," he added. "It's not the state that hires people when things go wrong."
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Has the file been poorly followed? "Stop redoing the trifecta with the result of the races You saw that the project would not go to the end?", Emmanuel Macron won against the press. "If you have more effective proposals, bring them to me and do not be in the permanent negative comment," he urged. The head of state came on the heels of the site now occupied by Ageco Agencement, a company specializing in retail and community layout, which has hired 44 former WNs. In an open letter on Thursday night, former employees of Whirlpool and WN said they would "demand answers from the president" about this social disaster.