Angry, farmers demonstrate before the National Assembly – Liberation
The first tractors arrived on the forecourt of the Assembly. Their owners respond, this Monday, May 26, to the call of the FNSEA and young farmers (JA) to be demonstrated in all the departments but also before the National Assembly, where must begin examination of the so -called « duploomb » bill, aimed at « Raise constraints » for their profession by promoting access to pesticides and reintroducing in particular neonicotinoids. « As of Monday morning, JA and the FNSEA will be in front of the National Assembly » For « Express refusal » of what they consider an attempt to« obstruction » Text by LFI deputies and ecologists, who deposited hundreds of amendments, announced the unions on Saturday in a press release.
« Unfortunately, it is almost certain today that the discussion of this text will never reach an end »feared the FNSEA and the JA, denouncing a « A attack on democratic debate » And « A deep contempt » For farmers. About 1,500 amendments were deposited by environmentalists and 800 by the rebellious on the 3,500 deposited, which prompted MPs favorable to the text to file a motion of rejection To get around this multitude of amendments. The objective of farmers is not « Not to block the capital » nor « Bringers the French »assured Arnaud Rousseau, the boss of the FNSEA. « In all the departments there will be actions between today and Wednesday »announced the agricultural representative. These will be « Rather of the order of the symbol, because farmers are at work »he added.
« Between 150 and 200 farmers, representations of the regions » must arrive in Paris this Monday, according to Arnaud Rousseau. They will be there « To say to the deputies, (…) you are sitting at the assembly, we are there to continue carrying the ambition of this text and ensuring that no one is mistaken about the will which is ours to see it succeed »he had declared in an interview with Midi Libre. While several permanence of deputies have been degraded on the sidelines of the examination of the bill, the demonstration is « Boarded, because we don’t want slippages »had specified the head of the organization, providing in parallel « Several thousand farmers mobilized in the regions, where the departmental federations, on their initiative, have already taken stock in recent days ».
The text is considered to be « vital » By the FNSEA because he responds, according to the union, to the expectations of operators after last year’s crisis. But he was the subject, still according to the union, of a « Together » In committee: before the Sustainable Development Commission, the proposal underwent an important setback, with the deletion of an article paving the way for environmental derogations for certain direct debits and water storage projects. « It is, for us, essential to return to the amendments that have been validated in the Sustainable Development Committee »had reiterated Arnaud Rousseau in Midi Libre.
