At the Agricultural Show, the manager anticipated on the flip by the unions, relay of agricultural anger | EUROtoday

Fifteen months earlier than the top of his mandate, can Emmanuel Macron nonetheless make himself audible to an agricultural world steeped in distrust, battered by successive crises and more and more tempted by the unconventional nature of the anti-democratic speeches? In the aisles of 62^e International Agricultural Show, Saturday February 21, the Head of State comes above all to “show support for the agricultural world”, helps these round him.

But the top of state’s stroll throughout this annual ritual is as soon as once more thwarted by agricultural anger. Two unions have introduced that they wish to boycott his arrival on the Porte de Versailles: the Rural Coordination, near the intense proper, and the Peasant Confederation, categorized on the left. “They want to take advantage of this sounding board that is the Agricultural Show to continue waging the union battle which has never really stopped since the elections to the Chambers of Agriculture in 2025,” believes the president of the Assembly’s financial affairs committee, Stéphane Travert.

The two organizations, which problem the hegemony of the principle union, the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), have been, in latest months, the driving forces of the mobilization in opposition to the federal government technique to struggle in opposition to contagious lumpy pores and skin illness. The systematic slaughter of contaminated herds to eradicate the epizootic had crystallized the emotion of an agricultural world exhausted by climatic hazards and up in opposition to unfair competitors attributed to requirements and worth limitations.

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