To materialize the government's announcements on animal welfare, the LREM deputies will partly support as of Thursday in committee a bill from the Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity (EDS) group, apart from its provisions on hunting, said the "
walker
»Aurore Bergé to AFP on Tuesday 29 September.
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The text is then expected in the hemicycle on October 8.
The LREM group will vote on the measures intended to gradually end the shows of wild animals in circuses and dolphinariums, or the breeding of mink, for fur.
The "
walkers
" want to include in law the announcements made by the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili Tuesday morning.
The EDS bill presented Thursday in the Economic Affairs Committee is carried by Yolaine de Courson and Cédric Villani, ex-LREM of the left wing who have joined a dissident parliamentary group.
But “
we have no reason to oppose this text on principle.
There is this legislative vehicle.
We must seize it and not be sectarian
", argues Aurore Bergé, deputy president of the LREM group, which"
works
"on the subject"
for three years
".
The ban on certain hunts "
would not lead to the Senate
"
On the other hand, the "
walkers
" do not intend to vote for EDS measures to prohibit certain types of hunts deemed "
cruel
" (hunting with hounds, lure hunting, underground venery, etc.) or to put an end in 2025 to the cage rearing of laying hens.
For hunting, “
we considered that there was no point in creating a new antagonism between rurality and the metropolises.
It is an element of fracture
, argues Aurore Bergé, who recalls that the hunt for glue was suspended at the end of August by the executive.
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The MP for Yvelines also judges that the ban on certain hunts "
would not lead to the Senate
", where the text should then pass, and that it is therefore not necessary to "
mix
" the different subjects.
Tuesday morning, the EDS deputies "
welcomed
" the announcements of Barbara Pompili on animal shows, while accusing the minister of "
vagueness
", in particular on "
the financial support
" of the actors.
In "
three years the government has procrastinated
" on the subject, pointed out Cédric Villani.
"
We have been quite effective in terms of the spur,
" he said.
The "
walkers
" could also support another proposed EDS law on the extension of the period of access to the voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).
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