Last straight line in parliament for the agricultural orientation law, before the show

The government is engaged in a race against the watch in Parliament to quickly adopt its agricultural orientation bill. Branded as a response to the discontent of the sector, but castigated by the left, he must be voted Tuesday in the Senate.

A curly orientation law just before the agricultural show? This is the objective displayed by the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard, determined to go quickly before the start of the flagship annual event of the peasant world, Saturday in Paris.

This first goes through a solemn vote in the Senate, scheduled for Tuesday in the early afternoon. The upper room, dominated by a right-centist alliance that supports the government, should comfortably adopt this text.

Presented approximately a year ago under the Attal government in reaction to an agricultural crisis which had ignited roundabouts, highways and the 2024 edition of the show, adopted by the National Assembly in the spring, the bill Agricultural orientation could not be examined earlier in the Senate.

In question, the dissolution then the censorship of the Barnier government, which twice the work of the senators.

“Difficult year”

“Farmers have just lived a difficult year. They were hampered in their desire to undertake. They must be encouraged to settle down, but also to stay in the profession ”supports senator Les Républicains Dominique Estrosi-Sassone.

After the vote of the upper House, a joint joint committee (CMP) bringing together seven senators and seven deputies will be held from 6.30 p.m. in the Senate to try to release, at a load and in camera, a text of compromise between the two rooms.

If parliamentarians achieve it, their common version could be subject to the two chambers before Saturday – or even on Wednesday – for two final votes which will be worth final adoption. Otherwise, the ” shuttle “ parliamentarian would resume and the agenda would lie down for several weeks.

However, parliamentary sources do not exclude a postponement of the vote after parliamentary holidays.

The outcome of the pull -ups remains uncertain: Assembly and Senate always have important differences of views on several irritating points, even if the government camp will be the majority in CMP.

The text brings back very diverse subjects, the transmission of operations to deal with the aging of the profession to the objectives of agricultural education, including hedge status or the repression of environmental damage.

Above all, he intends to erect agriculture to the rank “Major general interest” and makes food sovereignty a “Fundamental interest of the nation”.

The senators associated him with a criticized principle of “Non-regression of food sovereignty”mirror measurement of the “Environmental non-regression” already consecrated in the law.

“Coup de force”

On the initiative of Senator LR Laurent Dupumb and in a climate sometimes tense in the hemicycle, the upper chamber has also clearly reduced the constraints of farmers in terms of environmental damage – largely decriminalized -, agricultural facilities or destruction of hedges.

At the same time, she dismissed most of the references to the « transition » ecological in favor of the more neutral concept « d’adaptation ».

These developments, often voted against the government’s advice, worried the left. “It is an ultra -liberal text, bordering on obscurantism”regretted the socialist senator Jean-Claude Tissot.

“The Senate transformed the bill into a war machine against family farming and the environment”was indignant at the LFI president of the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly Aurélie found.

“An alarming signal of the rise of extreme right ideas”added the NGO Greenpeace in a press release.

Environmental parliamentarians have also denounced a “Coup de force” intended for “Allow some Emmanuel Macron announcements at the Agricultural Show”. Schedule an agenda “Untenable”they asked that the bill can be examined “In normal conditions”, “Until mid-March”.

Even the presidential camp is opposed to certain senatorial additions: “It is out of the question that we let ourselves be done” During the CMP, launched a macronist framework, ready to engage the balance of power with the right.