“This was an error made during the press interview ahead of the event.” In a tweet published Friday February 23the Elysée assures that the Earth Uprisings were not “neither invited nor contacted” to participate in the debate with Emmanuel Macron organized on Saturday during his visit to the Agricultural Show. The Elysée initially announced to journalists that the collective was invited to the debate, before withdrawing the invitation in the face of the anger of the FNSEA, the main agricultural union. Follow our live stream.
La FNSEA refuses “for the moment” to participate in this discussion time. His boss Arnaud Rousseau judges that the executive’s invitation to the Earth Uprisings shows that the Elysée has not “no understanding of the issues” farmers.
Action by farmers in Paris. Around fifty tractors and trucks from the Rural Coordination are gathered near the Porte de Saint-Cloud, in the capital, to maintain pressure on the government, noted Friday a journalist from France Bleu Paris. After launching a snail operation on the ring road, the farmers, who aim to get to Les Invalides, face riot police who prevent them from moving freely.
“This debate is a good idea,” assures Marc Fesneau. The Ministry of Agriculture “hope” that the great debate will be able to stand. Interrogates Friday on TF1, Marc Fesneau considered “inopportune” the invitation of the Earth Uprisings. It is “a collective whose model of expression is rather the Molotov cocktail”he judged, “so we don’t discuss with these people”.
The unions want to “keep up the pressure”. After almost a month of negotiations with the government, Rémi Dumas, vice-president of Young Farmers, recognizes “advances” in the discussions but “The account is not completely there and that is why we must maintain the pressure.”