Left elected officers accuse Annie Genevard of getting inspired farmers to “target” them; The Minister denounces a “dishonest” controversy | EUROtoday

Remarks that don’t cross, whereas degradations of parliamentary permanence has been recognized in current weeks, in opposition to the backdrop of the “Duplob” regulation. Left deputies accused the Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, of getting inspired the farmers of concentrating on them on Tuesday, May 27,, afters phrases reported by La Dépêche du Midi ; She would have declared throughout a gathering with agricultural officers final week: “We must target the elected officials on the left. »» But the Minister refutes any call for violence and believes that the sentence has been “Release of context”.

“” Target the elected officials on the left! “,, This shameful call to targeting elected officials from the Republic is that of the Minister of Agriculture. Inadmissible drift “published on X the first secretary of the Socialist Party and deputy of Seine-et-Marne, Olivier Faure. During questions to the government, the boss of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, even arrested Prime Minister, François Bayrou, accusing his Minister of Agriculture of having called “To political violence”.

According to the words reported by La Dépêche du Midithe Minister made this declaration at the end of a meeting last Wednesday with farmers in Tarn-et-Garonne, while they were exchanging about the proposal for an agricultural law known as “Duplomb”. While farmers expressed their fear that the text “Be emptied of its substance” Due to the amendments deposited in number by environmental elected officials and “rebellious”, M^me Genevard would have answered them: “We must target the elected officials on the left”. “Words that shocked, and not just the left elected officials who heard them”according to daily life.

“Encourage farmers to dialogue with their deputies”

“What the Minister of Agriculture said is not to” target “. She asked farmers to explain to their elected officials what was the text ”nonetheless, replied Mr. Bayrou within the hemicycle on Tuesday, denying “That there’s from the federal government the slightest stress on elected officers”under the protests of left -wing deputies. Earlier on X, the Minister herself denounced a “Polish mounted from scratch”. “Giving believe in a call for violence is dishonest. I have always called for respect and freedom of voting by parliamentarians. My goal was to encourage farmers to dialogue with their deputies ”she said.

But Tuesday in the hemicycle, Clémence Guetté, vice-president of the group La France Insoumise (LFI), also denounced this outing deemed “Irresponsible” of the minister, “While elected officers are harassed and their permanence degraded by violent activists”. The deputy for the environmentalist group, Benjamin Lucas, announced to him that he had seized the “Public prosecutor”.

These exchanges stretched at the Bourbon Palace took place the day after the tactical rejection of the “DUPLOMB” bill, which divides the assembly in particular on the question of the derogatory reintroduction of certain neonicotinoid pesticides. The deputies of the central block, the right and the extreme right, who support the text, decided Monday to reject it before its examination in the hemicycle, so that it can continue its parliamentary path in joint joint committee. Thus using procedures to bypass the mass of amendments deputies by elected environmentalists and “rebellious”.

A strategy defended Tuesday by Mr. Bayrou, against “An try to dam To make this textual content not be examined ”. “I think we need to find a way of organizing dialogues and debates so that parliament can fully play its role, that it is not entirely blocked by such or such group”he added.

The examination of this regulation in committee has been beneath stress in current weeks, a number of parliamentarians who’ve been the goal of harm. The president of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, castigated “Pressures” and “Intimidation acts” in opposition to elected officers. In a press launch printed on Monday, the prefect of Gironde condemned the degradation of two parliamentary permanence of elected officers on the left – these of the deputies Loïc Prud’homme (Gironde, LFI) and Nicolas Thierry (Gironde, the Ecologists) – occurred “Between Saturday evening and this Monday”denouncing “Unacceptable acts”. An investigation was opened.