The suspense lasted all day. Tuesday July 21, 2026 in the morning, everyone, including those around her, agreed that Monique Barbut, Minister of Ecological Transition, was going to resign. This was to protest against the agricultural emergency law, definitively adopted by the National Assembly during the night then in the Senate at the end of the day, which marks the reintroduction of two banned pesticides, including acetamiprid, a year after strong citizen mobilization against the Duplomb law, which had attempted for the first time to reauthorize the neonicotinoid insecticide.
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