The boss of the E.Leclerc centers will not participate in the exchange desired by the President of the Republic at the opening of the Agricultural Show on Saturday. “I have no vocation to play the useful idiot of a diversionary operation, nor to be hostage to political strategies,” Michel-Édouard Leclerc said.
He believes that it is not up to large retailers to respond to the issues raised by farmers and thus prefers to leave “precedence to those responsible for French and European agricultural policy”