Guillaume Cairou, leader of a medium-sized company (ETI) and president of the Yvelines Chamber of Commerce and Industry, becomes the fifth Medef presidential candidate this Monday evening.
In charge of a salary transportation company for 20 years, Guillaume Cairou explained to AFP that he wanted to modernize Medef, in particular by applying perfect parity between women and men in the bodies of the first French employers’ organization.
“For five years, France has changed, the world has changed, Medef must also change,” Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux’s supposed successor told AFP, who wants to be the defender of an “entrepreneurial Medef” project, positioning himself outside the current address that qualifies as “accompanying Medef”.
In a press release, Guillaume Cairou believes we must “do away with our image of a private circle of rich big bosses”, calling himself a “country entrepreneur”.
“Relatively Confident”
The 49-year-old is the founder of the salary transportation company Didaxis, which employs employees who work on behalf of client companies.
He says he feels “relatively confident” to gather the 150 sponsorships necessary to be able to stand in the elections scheduled for July 6, and explains that he waited for guarantees of support before launching into the race, open since the beginning of March.
Guillaume Cairou assures that several large Medef federations “welcome the possibility of having different candidates who reflect the diversity of our business leaders and who embody the role”.
The other candidates are the current number two of the Medef Patrick Martin, who is the favorite after having notably garnered the support of the Union of Industries and Trades of the Metallurgy UIMM), the spokesman and vice-president Dominique Carlac’h, the vice-president of the French Federation of Security Pierre Brajeux and the president of Medef Alsace Olivier Klotz.
On Monday, Patrick Martin collected in a tweet the support of the president of Medef Pays de la Loire, Samuel Tual.
Source: BFM TV
