Bison Futé sees red from Saturday at the Porte de Versailles.
Tradition dictates that the International Agricultural Show will welcome the President of the Republic on its opening day.
Emmanuel Macron, who could be heckled by angry farmers, is not likely to beat his 2019 record: 14 hours
“flattering the rumps of the cows”
, as François Bayrou would say.
Gabriel Attal, who has been working hard for several weeks to calm peasant anger, finally decided to go there on Tuesday.
The same day as... Marine Le Pen, who declined the invitation in our pages from the young prime minister to debate the crisis in the agricultural world.
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The double finalist in the presidential election will be able to count on a field largely plowed by her right arm Jordan Bardella.
The president of the Rally and candidate for the European elections will tour the aisles of the Salon for two days: Sunday and Monday.
History to mark the occasion less than four months before the June 9 election.
His radical right competitor Marion Maréchal chose to attend the high mass of agriculture on Thursday February 29, alongside the president of Reconquête!, Éric Zemmour.
Their visit is now placed under the sign of their frontal opposition to
“the tyranny of the Parisian and Brussels technocrats”
.
The Republicans are counting on this sixtieth edition of the Agricultural Show to once again show their support for the agricultural world.
With the European elections in the background, the president of the party Éric Ciotti will go there on Monday accompanied by the head of the list François-Xavier Bellamy (who will be there from Sunday for work meetings) and number 2, the farmer Céline Imart, newly appointed.
The same day, Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR senators, will join the Vendéens stand, while senator Hervé Marseille will be present under his label of president of the UDI.
Traffic jam of presidential candidates
Tuesday, it will be the turn of Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate followed the next day, Wednesday, by Laurent Wauquiez will inaugurate the stand of his Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, while he has just completed a tour of France on agricultural issues.
Will he come across David Lisnard and Xavier Bertrand in the aisles?
It's possible, since the LR mayor of Cannes and president of Nouvelle Énergie is also expected at the show on Wednesday, like the president of Hauts-de-France who, for his part, plans to also return on Thursday.
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Environmentalists, very targeted at the height of the agricultural crisis, are banking on these few days to demonstrate their attachment to the farming world.
A large delegation will go to the Porte de Versailles on Wednesday, led by the tandem Marine Tondelier and Marie Toussaint, respectively national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts and head of the European list.
The
“dialogue”
that these two figures of ecology maintain with farmers could prove to be muscular in the aisles of the Show.
The tone should, however, be more cordial with the side of the sickle (and the hammer).
The national secretary of the French Communist Party Fabien Roussel, particularly fond of the exercise, will be accompanied by Léon Deffontaines, head of the European list, during a visit planned for Wednesday.
For subscribers absent during previous editions, the three-time candidate for the presidential election Jean-Luc Mélenchon should not make an appearance in the Holy of Holies of Farm France.