French farmers have started a protest this Sunday towards the capital of the country in protest against the Government for the slowness of the application of the measures and to demand that the EU-Mercosur agreement is not ratified. If their demands are not met, they have warned that they will blockade Paris from this Monday, January 6.
Just a year ago they staged a series of protests that were mitigated by the government of the then prime minister. Gabriel Attal with a series of emergency measures in their favor.
Given the slowness in the application of the measures already demanded in the 2024 protests, ask for new actions and they demand that the trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, which both the Government and all French political parties, oppose.
The farmers have been called by the Rural Coordination union (CR)the second most important professional association in France and also more radical than the majority FNSA.
These workers do not plan to cut roads this Sunday, since for many it is the return of the Christmas school holidays, but They do not rule out carrying out “punctual” blockadeswarned the president of CR, Véroqique Le Floc’h.
However, CR has not detailed how the mobilizations around the capital will develop.
Prime Minister François Bayrou, who took office on December 20, has summoned agricultural organizations to discuss their demands on the 13th, but for the CR the meeting It’s “too late”as indicated today by the head of the union in the department of Oise, Sophie Lenaerts.
In a statement to RTL radio, Lenaerts said that lunch will be held at the Matignon Palace, the seat of the prime minister, on Monday. the ‘galette of the kings’a typical sweet on January 6, although it is a working day in France.
“I think that if they can celebrate they can also work and receive us,” he added.
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