French Employers’ Group, Newspaper, Warn Against Far-Right Vote

 Pierre Gattaz

Reuters, 01/12 16:29 CET

By Ingrid Melander

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s employers’ group chief warned voters on Tuesday against backing the far-right in regional elections this weekend, a rare move he said was justified because the National Front’s economic agenda was not a “responsible” one.

A newspaper and the Green party also urged voters not to vote for the FN, a measure of growing concern at polls that show the FN likely to win in two or three of 13 mainland French regions.

The anti-Europe, anti-euro FN’s economic agenda is “exactly the opposite of what we need to kickstart economic growth in this country,” Pierre Gattaz, head of France’s employers’ group Medef, told Le Parisien daily in an interview.

The FN’s economic agenda includes increasing import taxes, organising a referendum on leaving the euro, and reducing retirement age. 

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Source: Euronews