Amiens (AFP)
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 trouble in the inter-two rounds of the 2017 presidential election.
"I told the truth to Whirlpool ... (...) Did I say: we're all going to save you, we're going to keep the business?" I said, "those who tell you that you lie, "said the head of state, who had visited the site of the factory a few hours after rival Marine Le Pen.
"I told them: we will commit to you," he added, a few minutes before returning to the scene.
Mr. Macron, a native of Amiens, had surrendered five months after his election in Whirlpool with a buyer, largely assisted 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 Mr. Macron.
"The state is there with local communities to help train or reform, find other employers and help to find a bridge, it is not the state that hires people when things go wrong", he added
Has the file been poorly followed? "Stop redoing the trifecta with the result of the races, did you see that the project would not go to the end?", Mr. 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.
Mr. Macron arrived in the wake of the site now occupied by the Ageco Agencement, a company specializing in layout for mass distribution and communities, which has hired 44 former WN.
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.
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