“Here, it’s special, the Rural Coordination controls everything,” slips, “cautiously”, a farmer from Lot-et-Garonne.
The second professional union in France, the CR, the ultra-majority in this department, controls the Chamber of Agriculture.
“It’s not easy to have divergent opinions,” points out Paul Vo Van, spokesperson for EELV and departmental elected official responsible for… access to water.
This is evidenced by the letter sent in March 2023 by the Rural Coordination to the mayors called to vote on the extension of a Natura 2000 zone: “We will also be able to come to your town halls, ask for accounts (…), pay the fines in food, can -be perishable!
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At the same time, another letter threatened the national secretary of EELV before her arrival: "The territory is hostile to you (...) don't come to us, things will go badly!
» The complaint for concerted obstruction of freedom of expression against the Chamber of Agriculture of Lot-et-Garonne, co-signatory of this letter, is still being processed.
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