The request against the Duplom Law crossed this Sunday, July 20, shortly before 6 pm the millions of signatures at the National Assembly site, obtaining the support of 500,000 additional people in less than 24 hours, which could lead to an unprecedented debate in Parliament on this very disputed text but not its revision.
The petition was launched by a student on July 10, two days after the adoption of Senator Les Républicins Laurent Dupumb, authorizing the reintroduction under a pesticide.
The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said on Sunday “favorable” to the organization of a debate. But he “in no case may return to the approved law,” he added.
Laurent Dupomb also thinks that such a discussion, unprecedented in the Palais Bourbon hemicycle for a request under the fifth republic, will take place. But he is concerned about “unfair competition” for French farmers without this text.
And now?
Eléonore Pattery, the 23 -year -old student at the origin of the text, does not want to respond to the many media requests, estimating on Linkedln that “the voices that increase throughout the country (El) already represent very well.” His text was transmitted abundantly on social networks and about 500,000 additional people signed it in 24 hours, between Saturday and Sunday.
The opponents and supporters of the law, who had mobilized during their exam, expressed their disagreements on Sunday. The president and prime minister “must listen to popular anger against this current law. They must renounce promulgation,” the Insoumise Bompard coordinator has written in X.
The head of the Marino Tondelier of the Verdes requested a “second deliberation” of the law in Parliament, as President Emmanuel Macron may decide, which would delay his promulgation.
A debate “at least could highlight the positions of the deputies” who were not “very comfortable” with his vote, he said for his part to the AFP Emilie Deligny, general secretary of the Confederation of the Peasant, third agricultural union, which emphasizes “the issue of public health” of the playful pesticide.
On the contrary, Arnaud Rousseau, the head of the Fensea, the first agricultural union, very favorable to the DupBombo Law, believes that French agriculture “will disappear” if it is imposed “of higher standards” to those of its European neighbors. This law “is a scientific, ethical, environmental and health aberration,” writes the student in his request.
“Political pressure”
Adopted on July 8 in Parliament, it provides in particular the reintroduction in a dismissal and under conditions of acetamipride, pesticide of the neonicotinoid family, prohibited in France but authorized in Europe. This product is claimed by beet or hazelnut producers, who believe they have no alternatives against pests and undergo unfair competition.
On the contrary, beekeepers warn against “a bee murderer.” Its effects on humans are also a source of concerns, even if the risks remain uncertain, due to the lack of important studies.
The petition also requires “the democratic review of the conditions under which the Duplo law has been adopted.” In Parliament, he had experienced an expedited trip with a preliminary rejection motion, deposited by his own rapporteur Julien Dive (LR) but favorable to the text. The deputy had justified him denouncing the “obstruction” of the left, which had deposited several thousand amendments.
The absence of real debate in the hemicycle is one of the arguments presented by the leftist deputies who presented an appeal on July 11 before the Constitutional Council, waiting for their censorship by procedural default, which could avoid its promulgation.
This possibility of requests on the site of the Assembly, which dates back to 2019, is an example of “participatory democracy that could make the lines move,” estimates the constitutionalist Anne-Charlène Bezzina. This “exerts political pressure” on the deputies, abounds his colleague Benjamin Morel.
Source: BFM TV
