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HASRdennes, Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Dordogne, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Gers, Tarn and Lozère. Even if the main points of the outcomes of the elections to the Chambers of Agriculture isn’t but identified, we already know that rural coordination (CR) has gained in these 14 departments, confronted with the highly effective National Federation of Unions of Operators Agricultural (FNSEA), ally for the event for its satellite tv for pc, younger farmers (JA).

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For the CR, it’s a exceptional development. Since the earlier elections, in 2019, she had solely held three rooms: Vienna, Haute-Vienne and Lot-et-Garonne. It subsequently multiplies its base by nearly 5.

The FNSEA-Ja tandem began from very excessive, controlling 97 rooms out of 101. It will subsequently nonetheless dominate the panorama for the following six years, with not less than 83 rooms (the Moselle and Aveyron ballots have been nonetheless unsure this Friday to noon), however it’s not hegemonic. It might go underneath the symbolic bar of fifty % of the nationwide votes in a very powerful school, that of the chief operations (staff and retirees vote in separate faculties).

An agricultural disaster vote

The offensive discourse of the “yellow caps” of rural coordination, in opposition to the backdrop of recurring crises within the agricultural world, has discovered an viewers. “There is an anger that is expressed in farms, which is legitimate,” admitted to France Bleu Hervé Lapie, secretary basic of the FNSEA. The majority union would have paid a basic want to “identify the organizations in place”.

Read too Mercosur, scapegoat for the destroy of our agricultureOn the map of France, the South West now seems as a stronghold of coordination, with an exception, the Ardennes. The outcomes are delicate to interpret. Coordination is typically swiftly offered as near the nationwide rally. However, she has simply made a field the place the latter information her lowest presidential and legislative scores. The particularly rural points clearly prevail. They are complicated.

The Ardennes, Vienne or Haute-Vienne are cattle and sheep farming areas. The Gironde is dominated by wine. The Cher is a blended division, with main cultures, vineyards and breeding. Probable widespread denominator, difficulties of every kind, which even strike the formidable export machine from Bordeaux. “Difficult in Gironde to disconnect this union reversal of the tenacious crisis that has stunned the vineyard for many months, analyzes the daily Southwest Hot, this Friday. Marketing at half mast and free fall prices have led to large uprooting plans. »»

The wolf, an electoral agent of the coordination?

The Ardennes, in this register, have accumulated the plagues: Catarrhale fever in sheep farmers (“blue language” disease), epizootic hemorrhagic disease in cattle breeders and three wolf attacks each month on average in 2024 , on all types of herds.

Read too What if French farmers left to settle abroad? Conversely, in the pork production regions of the Great West, the FNSEA is maintained. The pig sector has entered a phase of prosperity for four years, with an average income per farm which exceeded 100,000 euros in 2023. In reverse of the national trend, rural coordination fell in Finistère (which shelters 19.3 % French porcine livestock) compared to 2019, from 34.5 % to 33.6 %.

In Ardèche, victory of the peasant confederation against a background of impoverishment

Finally comes the case of the peasant confederation. She kept no room. She wins one in mainland France, the Ardèche, plus an overseas room, Guyana (she also holds Mayotte, where the elections were postponed).


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Victory in mainland France? Yes, however with out triumph. This Friday, the Confédération Paysanne evokes a upkeep or at finest a really slight enhance in its nationwide viewers, at 20.5 %. The victory in Ardèche of the anti -capitalist various union is an indication of a relative impoverishment of farmers within the division. In this historic bastion of other actions from the Seventies to the current day, the share of micro-exploitation attaining lower than 25,000 euros annual commonplace manufacturing commonplace is 40 % (determine 2023), twice as a lot as on the National. Large cerealier or permacultor in lowering fragrant crops, regardless of the revenue, all voices clearly have the identical weight within the poll packing containers.

In latest years, the Confédération paysanne has posted quite a bit alongside the uprises of the earth. Difficult to say if this alliance with radical anti -capitalists benefited him. In Loire-Atlantique, the place she has gained the room a number of occasions in latest a long time, her viewers has dropped barely to 37.31 %, in opposition to 38.16 % in 2019. The division can also be the cradle of uprisings! In Deux-Sèvres, the place of violent anti-irrigation demonstrations coorganized with earth uprisings in 2023 and 2024, it fell to 21 %, in opposition to 23.83 % in 2019…


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