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FNSEA farmers build a brick wall in front of the office of PS MP François Hollande in Tulle, December 6, 2024.

“We are not here to play politics, if he had been from another party he would have had a wall like this. » Emmanuel Lissajoux defends the action carried out on December 6 against François Hollande. That evening, in Tulle, the president of the FDSEA of Corrèze and other farmers “at the end” erected a concrete block wall in entrance of the doorway to the parliamentary workplace of the previous socialist head of state, who has develop into a deputy once more. “He thinks it’s unfair? Well, we too find it unfair that political instability costs us so much”decides the president of the Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FDSEA), including that there was no “neither violence nor damage”. François Hollande wasn’t even there. “It was symbolic, we wanted to say “comedy is enough””summarizes the herd breeder.

After the dissolution in June, the vote of censure six months later “dropped in the water again” the guarantees obtained, such because the elimination of the rise in taxation on agricultural diesel, explains Emmanuel Lissajoux: “Of course, there are different points, however I’m right here to defend farmers, to have interaction in unionism. And once we lastly handle to barter good measures, their political sport condemns us each time. »

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