D-12 before the start of the Agricultural Show.
While the emblematic event at the Porte de Versailles will, like every year, be inaugurated by the President of the Republic, at the start of 2024 it takes on a very particular flavor.
Two weeks after the calm regained in the rural world, which increased the number of blockages throughout the month of January, the government is not out of the woods.
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The proof ?
The strong declarations of the boss of the FNSEA Sunday evening on BFMTV:
“No one has any interest in walking around with us.”
“We are not at the right tempo (...), we must accelerate the tempo
,” he warned.
Before threatening the executive with new actions in the coming days if it does not take action.
Enough to increase the pressure on Gabriel Attal's young team, which does not intend to remain passive.
If the FNSEA and the Young Farmers will, on this occasion, be received on Tuesday at Matignon, Emmanuel Macron will receive all the agricultural unions, one by one, at the Élysée between now and the opening of the Salon de l'Agriculture on February 24, according to information from BFMTV confirmed to Le
Figaro.
"Like every year"
The Peasant Confederation and the Rural Coordination are then expected this Wednesday at the Palace, while the FNSEA and the Young Farmers will wait until next week.
If the Château specifies that Emmanuel Macron,
“like every year”
, will meet with
“all the organizations representing the agricultural world”
, these interviews will be particularly scrutinized by professionals in the sector.
The reception that the President of the Republic will receive at Porte de Versailles depends on it.
Who is used to wandering its aisles for several hours.