Wednesday evening, for the third issue of “Our great decisions”,
Hugo Clément
chose to discuss not three subjects but only one, that of the agricultural crisis.
To do this, the host and journalist had invited several farmers as well as the chef Thierry Marx, scientists and the Minister for Agriculture
Agnès Pannier-Runacher
, he announced in the afternoon on his Instagram account.
But around 8 p.m., he posted a video in his story to announce that the latter had canceled his visit.
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“We are doing a live special show on agriculture this evening at 10:45 p.m. We are going to receive lots of farmers on set, some organic, some conventional, to try to dialogue, to find solutions to the crisis that the agricultural world is currently going through and we were to have among our guests the Minister Delegate for Agriculture Agnès Pannier -Runacher who agreed to come to talk with the farmers, to answer their questions. And at the last moment, we just learned that she is finally canceling, she will not be there
,” he declared.
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“You should know that we also proposed it to Marc Fesneau, the Minister of Agriculture, who declined. We proposed it to the government spokesperson, Prisca Thevenot, who was unable to do so. The same goes for the Minister of Ecology, Christophe Béchu, who was unable to attend. We proposed to lots of ministers, there was one who accepted and finally she just canceled our request
,” he said before concluding:
“We will not have a minister, we will not have a government representative to dialogue with farmers and provide answers.
It's a shame, we would have liked to start a constructive dialogue but we're still going to do this show, it's going to be exciting and we're going to give a voice to the main stakeholders, namely the farmers
.
“Why are you scaring the ministers?
»
Hugo Clément in “Our big decisions” on France 2
From the first minutes of “Our big decisions”, after introducing his guests, Hugo Clément reiterated his explanations.
“You will notice, we have an empty chair this evening.
It's this one, I'm going to move in since it's free, I'm going to take advantage of it.
In this chair, we wanted to have a member of the government to be able to dialogue with the farmers
,” he began before turning to his guests and asking them:
“Why are you scaring the ministers?
What is happening ?
Why are you scaring them like that?
»
.
Contacted by our colleagues from Le
Parisien
, Agnès Pannier-Runacher's entourage assured that the cancellation of her visit is linked to
“diary constraints”
.
“It is not Agnès Pannier-Runacher's habit to shy away from her responsibilities and she will have the opportunity to demonstrate this at the Agricultural Show.
When you are a minister, the days start very early and end very late in the evening.
She had a succession of appointments today, which had to be honored.
These are professional constraints.
The entire government is very mobilized by the agricultural crisis.
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