Even earlier than its opening, the 62e version of the Salon de l’agriculture had already made historical past. For the primary time, the cows, stars of the “largest farm in France” are absent from the “show” because of a disaster attributable to contagious lumpy pores and skin illness. The administration of this illness in addition to the commerce settlement with Mercosur on January 17 have been the catalyst for the brand new mobilization of farmers this winter.
Surrounded by a bolstered safety system, Emmanuel Macron entered the salon at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday February 21, welcomed by agricultural representatives and chosen elected officers. Failing to take a break close to the muse cow, Biguine, who was additionally absent to start the stroll, he chatted with the breeder. This conventional inauguration of the present by the President of the Republic occurred towards a backdrop of latent anger but additionally union tensions.
The Peasant Confederation had already set the tone, two weeks earlier, by saying that it might not take part within the conventional breakfast normally organized by Emmanuel Macron through the inauguration of the Agricultural Show and that it might even boycott this inauguration. “We do not want to be puppets in the annual presidential show. It is indecent to play the game in a puppet window”asserts Stéphane Galais, spokesperson for the union.
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