BERTRAND GUAY / AFP Marc Fesneau photographed during Questions to the Government this Tuesday January 23.
BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Marc Fesneau photographed during Questions to the Government this Tuesday, January 23.
POLITICS – The usefulness of finding out before attacking. During questions to the government on Tuesday, January 23, the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau did not escape a question relating to the anger of the peasant world, bereaved by the death of a mother on the sidelines of the mobilizations. Among the speakers who challenged him was the rebellious MP Mathilde Hignet, who sharply took the minister to task.
« For months, we have been alerting you to the uneasiness and discontent that is rising in the countryside,” said the Breton elected official, who accuses the government of “complicity” with industrialists who “ with gorge » on the backs of the operators. “ Our farmers are competing with the rest of the world, and you continue to sign free trade agreements “, she continued, before asserting: “ Enough of your empty speeches, the peasants want to live from their work ».
A full-blown attack to which the minister responded by attacking to man to his interlocutor. “ I’m going to tell you what I hear from farmers: that they are fed up with endless reports, endless reports, and endless expressions of people denigrating their work. Let us believe that their agriculture is not the most virtuous, the most qualitative, the most respectful of the environment”he got excited, asking the MP for Ille-et-Vilaine to make her “examination of conscience” on the subject.
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« Shame » et « contempt »
While her response caused a ruckus from the left benches, Marc Fesneau once again called on the MP to “ listen » the agricultural world. “ Go to the field “, he insisted. A reply that came back to him like a boomerang. Because the MP he was targeting, Mathilde Hignet, is a farmer by profession, as is reported on the website of the National Assembly. « It’s a shame ! I was an agricultural worker. I know the terrain. Believe me, the anger of the peasants is legitimate », the MP was indignant on the social network (formerly Twitter).
« To Mathilde Hignet who asks the government to put in place minimum prices so that farmers can make a living from their work, and a moratorium on free trade treaties, Minister Marc Fesneau responds… to go into the field ! Before being elected deputy for La France Insoumise, Mathilde Hignet was an agricultural worker. Swallow your contempt and act! “, growled on the same social network the president of the rebellious group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot.
« Only Marc Fesneau is totally out of touch to tell a farm worker to go into the field! What contempt! », Added the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Bastien Lachaud. Same criticism formulated by François Ruffin: “ When we signed free trade treaties with Canada, New Zealand, Vietnam, Mexico and soon, Brazil, we try to maintain a little dignity, Mr. Fesneau. We don’t lecture an agricultural worker elected as a deputy,” he tackled. Questioned by the press at the exit of the hemicycle, the LFI elected official did not hide her emotion. “ I live in this environment, I am the daughter of farmers, I worked on the farm before being elected,” she replied, inviting the minister to “review your files”.
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In a portrait dedicated by The worlde in 2022, we learned that Mathilde Hignet intended to take over the family business in several years. “ In the field “, SO.
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