A
“big debate”
between Emmanuel Macron and representatives of the agricultural world, to open the Agricultural Show on Saturday morning, before the classic stroll between the stands.
The idea made its way to the Élysée, where people racked their brains to defuse a welcome that promises to be tense at the Porte de Versailles.
“We are going to do things a little differently than usual,”
confirms an advisor to the president.
The idea comes from Emmanuel Macron himself, who had already imagined the “
great debate
” to extricate himself from the anger of the “yellow vests” in 2019.
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No less than 200 people - trade unionists, farmers, associations - could this time be present around the Head of State.
On this theme as on the rest, the president first has confidence in his own intuitions.
“He often makes up his own mind,”
slips the boss of the Renaissance senators, François Patriat, often in contact with wine growers on his Côte-d'Or lands.
Even if the president obviously feeds on opinions and…
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