The anger persists, on the eve of Gabriel Attal's press conference and possible new announcements and a few days before the Agricultural Show in Paris.
The agricultural unions have put forward their demands and it is now necessary for "the time for political decision" to begin, declared Tuesday the boss of the majority union FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau, after a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
“Expectations are very high,” he told a few journalists.
To maintain the pressure until the end, the FNSEA and its union ally the Young Farmers (JA) have planned a “procession” of farmers in Paris on Friday evening led by a few tractors and ending in front of the doors of the show.
The details have not yet been fixed and the number of demonstrators is still uncertain, but it is expected that at least some of them will remain there all night, the secretary general of the FNSEA told AFP, Hervé Lapie.
This Tuesday, several demonstrations and “control operations” in supermarkets took place throughout France.
Others are planned in the coming days with the announcement of new blockages.
In Tarn-et-Garonne, farmers from the FDSEA and the Olympic Games began again this Tuesday to block the A62 motorway between Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) and Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), forcing a closure of the lanes over several tens of kilometers.
⛺️ SETTING UP THE CAMP ON THE A62!
The Tarn-et-Garonnais farmers are preparing camp for their first night on the A62 where they began blocking this afternoon.
Reinforcements are on the way. #RésistancePaysanne #AgriculteursEnColere pic.twitter.com/9Gh8VgfJyZ
— Résistance Paysanne 🚜 (@ResistPaysans) February 20, 2024
“We consider that our work is done and that we have put in the hands of the public authorities the very clear, very structured elements of what we expect,” Arnaud Rousseau underlined this Tuesday.
The situation is now “in the hands of the President of the Republic.
It is now up to him to exercise his authority,” he added, specifying that the head of state had not made an announcement to them on Tuesday.
Macron expected around the corner
For the president of Young Farmers, Arnaud Gaillot, received separately by Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, the president showed himself to be “listening”.
“To tell you what he will have learned from it and what he will do with it, I will meet you on Saturday (
the president must inaugurate the Agricultural Show
) to see what he will potentially announce,” he said. -he indicates.
“If the announcements are not there, if there is no account, we will say
on this point there is no account
.
But I don’t imagine that with the work we have done, there is deafness of this nature,” said Arnaud Rousseau, affirming that Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Agricultural Show could not be a simple stroll.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal – who said he was ready for a debate on the subject with Marine Le Pen – must also speak on Wednesday morning during a press conference dedicated to the agricultural crisis, before the Council of Ministers, notably to detail the content of the agricultural orientation bill.