AFP
At the time of the milkman, a face-to-face which promises to be tense between Macron and the farmers
A welcoming committee of farmers camped in front of the Agricultural Show before Emmanuel Macron’s visit on Saturday to a minefield, as the anger is now crystallizing on his person after the Élysée blunder around the invitation of the Uprisings of the Terre, an environmentalist collective hated by many farmers. The Head of State will come to inaugurate the Agricultural Show as presidents have usually done since Jacques Chirac, “but not like every year”, warned Friday evening the boss of the majority agricultural union FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau. Implied, it will not be a walk in the park sheltered from boos and demonstrations of distrust. The head of state plans to meet the leaders of “all agricultural unions before the official opening” then “d ‘get in touch with all those who want to exchange as I do every year’, according to his message on Nicolas Sarkozy had said “Get lost, then, you poor bastard!” in 2008 to a man who refused to shake his hand. François Hollande was booed and insulted by breeders in 2016. Arnaud Rousseau warned the president “that before marching and taking photos, we must first announce to the farmers what they expected and what they demanded for weeks”, during a speech in front of his troops from the FNSEA and the allied union Young Farmers (JA) in the evening in front of the doors of the show, Porte de Versailles in Paris. The demonstrators heavily whistled the president’s name. Under a sign reading “Manu Tchao!”, Romain Garnier explains: “If things don’t change, he has to leave. With what he’s given us so far, it’s chao.” “Frankly”, says an executive from the FNSEA, “we have no control over anything. They are boiling hot.”Arnaud Rousseau and his counterpart Véronique Le Floc’h, president of Rural Coordination, the 2nd French agricultural union, still agreed to see the president – “if he can come back”, added Ms. Le Floc’h. – “Arm of honor” -The crisis, which had been brewing since the fall, exploded from January 18, leading to two weeks of blockades highways, finally lifted on February 1. Gabriel Attal made several bursts of announcements on dozens of subjects: pesticides, standards, administrative simplifications, aid to breeders or wine growers, controls in supermarkets against fraud on the French origin of products, new law enshrining the agriculture as a fundamental interest of the nation…Environmental NGOs denounce an ecological decline, in particular on pesticides whose use will no longer be measured as before, but their discourse against intensive agriculture, just like that of the alter-globalization union Confédération peasant, is barely audible in the face of the existential protests of the farmers. They have agreed to unblock the roads because they appreciate that their demands are starting to be taken into account by the executive. But they continue to demand rapid and concrete actions to improve their income, and respond to their demand for dignity. The members of the majority unions, especially in the major cereal crops, were especially furious to learn that the Elysée wanted them to debate on Saturday, among other NGOs, with the radical collective of Uprisings of the Earth, which distinguished itself in March 2023 during a day of clashes around an artificial water reservoir construction site in Sainte- Soline (Deux-Sèvres) and which the government has failed to dissolve.”The president, he gave us a huge arm of honor yesterday so, what we are waiting for now is for him to announce things”, said explained Friday Vincent Bouvrain, farmer in Seine-et-Marne, in the Parisian demonstration of the FNSEA. The idea of a major debate, along the lines of those organized at the time of the “yellow vest” crisis, therefore came to naught, leading to its cancellation on Friday evening. It remains to be seen how long Emmanuel Macron will “contact” Salon participants.myl-sb/ico/jnd
2024-02-26 00:41:39
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