Rural Coordination (CR), the third union in the sector, has not passed unnoticed. It is sometimes singled out by her rivals for her supposed “collusion” with the far right.

“They have extreme methods,” points out Hervé Lapie, secretary general of the FNSEA. They hold ideas that are very different from ours, supported by the National Rally, which manipulates them, he says. ‘We are fed up with these innuendoes which are only meant to harm us,’ says CR president Véronique Le Floc’h.