Laurent Wauquiez, LR's putative candidate for the Élysée in 2027, said on Wednesday that he hoped that farmers would appear
"in a good position"
on his party's European list, denouncing the
"betrayal"
of the sector by the majority and
"the 'absenteeism'
in the European parliament of RN Jordan Bardella.
“My wish is that we have farmers in a good position on the Republican list
,” the president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, who finished in Montigné-lès-Rairies, told AFP on Wednesday ( Maine-et-Loire) a three-week
“agricultural tour of France”
which took him to 17 farms in the country.
“It would be a very strong signal of our desire to defend our farmers
,” added Mr. Wauquiez, who rarely speaks in the national political debate and spoke for the first time in the European campaign.
LR the only party to defend farmers
However, he did not want to confirm the name of Céline Imart, cereal farmer from Tarn, whom
Le Parisien
mentioned as François-Xavier Bellamy's running mate for the June 9 election, believing that it was up to party boss Éric Ciotti to make the list.
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Accompanied by the deputy for Maine-et-Loire Anne-Laure Blin and the senator from Haute-Loire Laurent Duplomb, the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, who has still not formally revealed his ambitions for 2027, assured that LR was the only party that had defended French farmers in the European Parliament over the last five years.
“Renaissance betrayed them
,” he denounced, considering that
“the policy led by (Renaissance MEP) Pascal Canfin was a succession of daggers in the back of our agriculture
. ”
The RN targeted
He also did not spare the head of the RN list, Jordan Bardella:
“He is one of the most absentee deputies in the entire European Parliament and he only discovered the agricultural subject when the farmers were on dams”
during the recent agricultural crisis.
“For five years, he never brought concrete and operational things to bear on these subjects
,” he again lamented, believing on the contrary that Mr. Bellamy and the LRs were
“involved and committed”
.
“I consider that this is part of what is the duty of our Republican political family to defend agriculture and the rural world
,” he added.