The President of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, described in an interview with JDD the Prime Minister’s responses to the farmers’ demonstrations as “ridiculously weak”. The new head of government Gabriel Attal proclaimed from Occitanie this Friday “the day of revival” for French agriculture, promising ten measures which aim to facilitate the work of farmers and put an end to the increase in taxation on non-road diesel.
“It was Mr. Macron and his friends who decided to increase agricultural fuel,” denounced Éric Ciotti in the interview. “The “Restoration of Nature” Law which provides for agricultural decline was supported in Brussels by Renaissance elected officials. Emmanuel Macron is an arsonist firefighter who started the fire himself.”
Asked about the solutions proposed by Les Républicains to respond to this crisis in the agricultural world, the party leader called for “financially supporting” farmers “who live below the poverty line”. “No farmer should earn less than 1,500 euros net per month,” he argued, proposing to finance such aid with sanctions against distributors “who do not respect the law which guarantees a minimum price to agricultural production” or by removing “certain aid” from urban policy.
Pleading for a “revolution”, the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes also proposes in this interview to “put an end to free trade agreements which threaten agriculture” and “remove paralyzing standards”. “The Republicans are tabling, with Antoine Vermorel, a bill aimed at prohibiting the importation of products that do not respect our rules,” he also announced in this regard.
Two days after the broad censorship of the Constitutional Council towards the immigration law negotiated by the right-wing oppositions and the presidential camp, Éric Ciotti also spoke in the weekly on what he describes as “major seriousness”. “The judge took the place of the legislator and therefore of the people,” criticized the leader of the Republicans, castigating “the legal and ideological drift” of the Constitutional Council.
