The news should not please hunters and the president of their federation, Willy Schraen, who sees the pressure of a "very boboist Parisian environment". A month and a half after its launch, the campaign to organize a shared initiative referendum (RIP) against animal abuse passed the 500,000 signature mark on Monday.
Christophe Marie, spokesperson for the Bardot Foundation, praised “the strong commitment of citizens”. " It's great! We rarely have the opportunity to bring together 500,000 signatories during our petitions ”, he reacted, regretting that the counter of parliamentarians is advancing much less quickly, because of“ pressure from lobbies ”. One hundred and twenty-nine parliamentarians, however, gave their support to the initiative according to the site refererendumpourlesanimaux.fr.
"The counter continues to run inexorably"
Six flagship measures are retained by its promoters: end of intensive breeding, ban on cage and fur farming, ban on hunting with hounds and traditional, wild animal shows and end of animal experimentation. if the alternatives exist. Brigitte Gothière, president of L214, was delighted that “the summer has not put out the fire around this initiative. The counter continues to run inexorably ”.
The RIP makes it possible to submit a bill to a referendum if it is supported by at least one fifth of the members of Parliament (185 parliamentarians) and 10% of the people registered on the electoral roll (ie 4.7 million citizens). For the journalist Hugo Clément, at the origin of the project launched on July 2 with in particular the navigator Marie Tabarly, "the fight is focused on the course of 185 parliamentarians".
“We let them come, we have no deadline. By September, we will be more offensive, we will go look for them one by one to ask them whether or not they want to support this project, ”he said.
4.7 million citizens needed
Hugo Clément obtained the support of Xavier Niel, Marc Simoncini and Jacques-Antoine Granjon, three great French bosses. “We're at half a million. It takes 10 times more ”, reacted the creator of Meetic Marc Simoncini. “Our job is to convince each registrant to convince three to four people around him. We are going to use our networks in a more powerful way. It is the beginning of a movement which is set in motion and which will go far beyond! ".
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For Xavier Niel, "the main job is to find the 185 senators or deputies". He considers "the just cause" and hopes "to succeed in early September".
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It will then only remain "to transform the support of citizens into formal support in accordance with the text", argued the boss of Free who does not claim to be "an extremist of the animal cause".