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Angry farmers: how the rank and file forced the unions to act

It’s intense. This Wednesday, the prefecture of Agen (Lot et Garonne) experienced a day of very high tension. And a planned interview with members of Agriculture Minister Mark Fesno’s cabinet failed to calm the mood. “We are leaving the same way we came,” says José Pérez of the Rural Coordination through a megaphone, before inviting the heated crowd to go and dump straw and manure in front of the Crédit Agricole, or Mutualité Sociale Agricole.

The rest after this announcement

A scene reminiscent of the one that took place a week earlier, this time in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). On January 16, the representative of the FRSEA (Regional Federation of Farmers’ Unions) of Occitanie, Philippe Jugla, left a meeting with the prefect to report to the demonstrators who had been crossing the pink city all day. Empty-handed, his name is “Sold!” ” and whistle.

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Source: Le Parisien

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