Perched on his orange tractor, Éric Martineau left his curved suit in the closet. "I'm in jeans, T-shirt and sneakers all summer," laughs the elected MoDem of Sarthe. It is in the middle of his apple trees that the arborist chose to spend his parliamentary recess. "You have to water them every day. I also have all the accounting to catch up, "he says, surveying alone his fifty hectares. After a first year on the benches of the Assembly, this first-time member admits to having needed to "breathe". "I already feel like I've been elected for ten years. Without my farm, I would have lost my mind," he says.
Like him, they are a handful of farmer MPs who take refuge in their land during the summer. In Ille-et-Vilaine, the elected Insoumise Mathilde Hignet even gave herself two additional days of break to work on her parents' fruit farm. "I needed to do manual things. We quickly find ourselves going all the time...
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