Two days after the "working meeting" organized at the Elysée to "declare the end" of the farmers' crisis, traveling to Agen for the inauguration of a bridge, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, wanted to meet union representatives from the agricultural world, this Saturday, May 4.
"We are seeing the end" of the agricultural crisis, declared Emmanuel Macron's entourage two days earlier, following a working meeting between the executive and around thirty representatives of the sector (unions, cooperation , inter-professional). It is now Gabriel Attal's turn to prove the Government's good faith towards farmers.
Traveling in Lot-et-Garonne this Saturday, May 4, for the inauguration of a bridge, the Prime Minister plans to meet several union representatives from the agricultural world, who are waiting for him. “It is unthinkable that he will not receive us,” had warned, the day before, Karine Duc, co-president of Rural Coordination 47, joined by her right-hand man, José Perez, who insisted that they will “not accept 'being taken for idiots' to the journalists of La Dépêche.
This Saturday, Gabriel Attal must therefore, upon his arrival at the beginning of the afternoon, speak with representatives of the Rural Coordination, a departmental delegation of the FNSEA, and the Young Farmers of 47, in the salons of the prefecture .
According to information collected by BFMTV, each meeting must be held separately, at the request of the unions. They are an opportunity to take stock of the discontent still in force and to take stock of the measures that were taken after the strong mobilization of the agricultural world in January.
On Thursday, Emmanuel Macron explained to the unions that he did not believe in a rapid end to the crisis and planned to wait for the outcome of the next professional elections, scheduled for 2025, to share his "future project" for agriculture. French.
