the controversy on the petition within the National Assembly confirms the divisions on agriculture | EUROtoday

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The National Assembly during the debate on the petition against the Duplomb law, in Paris, February 11, 2026.

On the so-called Duplomb regulation, geared toward lifting constraints on the farming career, there was a vote with out debate. In May, a majority of deputies opted to reject the textual content upfront, earlier than analyzing the proposal within the hemicycle, to ship it on to the joint committee. On Wednesday February 11, there was the controversy with out a vote. Seven months after a petition bringing collectively greater than 2.1 million signatories on the National Assembly web site, a report for an initiative requiring strict authentication, the nationwide illustration devoted a session to this unprecedented citizen mobilization.

For this primary, the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, needed to oversee the session herself. “This is the primary time that this process has been utilized, which establishes a hyperlink between civil society and nationwide illustrationshe mentioned. This dialogue will clearly must proceed past this afternoon’s session. »

On the deserves, nonetheless, the controversy is not going to have made it attainable to stipulate a reconciliation between the defenders of an agriculture which should produce, they consider, on equal phrases with its neighbors, even when it means revisiting sure guidelines and constraints, and the proponents of the agroecological transition as a response to the challenges of world warming, the preservation of sources and the upkeep of agricultural earnings. The hemicycle, though sparse, appeared extra divided than ever on the agricultural mannequin to defend.

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