This is not a consultation all but informal meetings with the reflections of the time and free slots in loaded agendas. Ségolène Royal has met in recent weeks some patterns of large corporations and at least a trade union leader. "Duck chained" yesterday reported an appointment with François Pinault, founder of the Group PPR, art lover and friend of Jacques Chirac. The Socialist candidate does not confirm, but does not nor if it seeks a denial.
This appointment took place or not, it would not be the first. But need to surprise a whisper or to be in the right place at the right time to have names. Because it is a rule, the discretion is part and on the other: the candidate wants to be able to discuss quietly from the media lights and interlocutors do not want to appear enlisted under a banner. Thus, on 21 November, Ségolène Royal met the CEO of Veolia Environnement, Henri Proglio, and the week following the Secretary General of the CFDT François Chérèque. The first had coordinated a report to the Government crisis of the CPE, recommending to revalorise the CDI as "normal hiring form" of young graduates. The Socialist candidate saw him a few days before participating in a Roundtable on the use of the "Parliament of the suburbs". The second, François Chérèque, had refused to meet with her until she was officially invested by the PS and did not hide its hostility to compulsory membership of a trade union employees, a time defended by Ségolène Royal. The candidate now prefers to call her a "mass syndicalism" greeting, and recently entrusted the President of the PS in the Assembly, Jean-Marc Ayrault group, work on the reform of the social democratic.

Value examples
At the end of its meeting on 23 November with the Socialist region Presidents (that she found today at the Congress of the Association of the regions of France), she explained rely on elected officials to find him "of patterns of SMEs who have worked on social dialogue". In order to enhance examples that work.
Ségolène Royal has stated on several occasions to want to "reconcile the French with the company", which, in his mind, is "new security" for employees, but does not "agility" to companies, including those that invest in innovation.
For the moment, the representatives of the employers are the words of Ségolène Royal "clear steps", including on the 35-hour, and they wondered aloud on his "desire to listen." The Socialist candidate appears no hurry to meet them. Last may, in "Les echos", she explained also "not to believe" that the Medef and CGPME "reputation" to represent an enlightened employers. She had been invited to the summer University for the Medef, in August, but, at the time, the PS internal campaign started and the Contracting Party had preferred not to appear alongside Laurence Parisot.
Statement of disagreement
There is no less that, since a month, François Hollande and Jean-Pierre Jouyet, also Chief of the General Inspection of finance, make calls of the foot to have a meeting place fast enough. The French Association of private companies (Afep) have also been approached. The CGPME, for his part, wrote to Ségolène Royal as of 27 November, in the aftermath of his appointment. In his letter, Jean-François Roubaud the praised and proposed an appointment. Despite several reminders, the CGPME received no reply to date. Or Michel Pébereau, Chairman of BNP Paribas and the Institute of business, a business club, also launched an invitation to lunch. The UPA, it prefers to await all candidates for stop, probably in February. The three employers organisations anyway already gave their opinion on the Socialist project for 2007. So, unsurprisingly, each time for a statement of disagreement.