“We must seal the end of this agricultural crisis,” assures Emmanuel Macron after his hectic visit to the Agricultural Show

In an interview with “Figaro”, the Head of State welcomed the dialogue he had with union delegates in the aisles of the Exhibition Center, but denounces the political exploitation of agricultural anger by the National Rally.

“In the end, it’s always better when people talk.” Greeted by clashes and boos at the Agricultural Show on Saturday February 24, Emmanuel Macron was finally able to talk, during his 13-hour visit, with union delegates from the agricultural world. Even if it was “the mess”according to his expression, he greeted in an interview with Figaro, “the role that the main unions played in calming things down”. “They guaranteed me that things would go calmly for the members of the government who will come in the coming days”, he added. Plunged into the middle of a crisis, the government has already made concessions, and is waiting for “a few concrete requests to enable[en] “They must fit in four, five points, not 150”, warned the head of state. He arranged to meet representatives of the sector at the Elysée in three weeks.

“We must seal the end of this crisis, but I will also say what the plan is for the nation and what we are going to defend at the European level.”

Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic

at Figaro

The head of state hopes to seal “a new pact with farmers” and clarified that “France does not put enough money into supporting our farmers.” However, he regretted the position of the Rural Coordination and its “local decision-makers” Who “are committed in a very official manner at the National Rally.” “I’m not fooled by anything. The Salon has always stirred politics, this is nothing new. But when you have hundreds of people with flags demanding Frexit, these are not agricultural movements, they are factual.”he assured.

“It’s at the end of the fair that we count the dung”

As the European elections approach, Emmanuel Macron wants to respond to the crisis on the political level, by fighting for farmers’ income and against “an overadministration that has developed far too many controls”. He recognizes the rise of extremes “in all walks of life” and highlights the bipolarization also of these June elections with on one side “a political offer to reform Europe, make it more sovereign, more united alongside Ukraine, and defend our CAP. And on the other side, there are people who, before, assumed to be for Frexit and who now just want to leave the eurozone”.

If he does not officially confirm the appointment at the top of the list of the president of the centrist Renew group in the European Parliament, Valérie Hayer, he has confirmed that he will take part in this “existential fight”. “I’ve always worn it and I won’t give up on it.”he warned. “It’s at the end of the fair that we count the dung, he insistsI will do whatever is useful.”