The threshold of 200,000 signatures is about to be crossed. A citizen petition for the immediate repeal of the Duple Law broke records at the site of the National Assembly.
“This law is a dangerous act. For workers, inhabitants, ecosystems, ecosystem services and for all humanity,” he adds. “I’m not affiliated with anywhere,” he said in his LinkedIn account.
OBJECTIVE 500,000 signatures
Run on July 10, the petition was collected, at a time when we wrote these lines this Friday, July 18, 196,469 signatures, including 100,000 in the last three days. Affirms the “immediate repeal” of the law, “the democratic review of the conditions under which it was adopted”, as well as “the citizen consultation of the actors of health, agriculture, ecology and law.”
The presidents conference of the National Assembly can decide to organize a debate in the public session if it collects at least 500,000 signatures.
I adopted on July 8 in Parliament, the Duple Law establishes in particular the reintroduction in a dismissal and under conditions of acetamiprid, pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids, prohibited in France but authorized in Europe. The deputies on the left seized the Constitutional Council on July 11, estimating this text incompatible with the preservation of the environment and the right to health.
Started by Senators Laurent Dupumb (LR) and Franck Menonville (UDI, Center), the bill adopted by 316 votes against 223 during a last session on Tuesday in the Assembly, is presented as one of the responses to the wrath of the farmers of winter 2024.
Presented as an response to the agricultural wrath of 2024, and claimed by the Fensea and its allies of young farmers, the Dute law is criticized by the conferration Paysanne, the third French agricultural union.
Source: BFM TV
