“A legitimate opposition”: Senator Laurent Dupumb reacts to the request requesting the repeal of his text

A resounding success. A petition against the Dupomba Law in pesticides has more than 800,000 signatures. A record figure, to which the senator LR reacted that carried the controversial text, Laurent Dupumb.

“In a rule of law, an opposition is legitimate, especially when expressed in a legal framework that is the case of this request,” said the elected representative of Haute-Loire to France Télévisions.

For the elected representative of the upper room, this request is also symbolic of a fracture in the country. “What is happening clearly shows two opposite visions of our society. Mine based on work, growth and sovereignty and defense for its invoice, emphasizes.

“And that of the petitioners, whom they like Sandrine Rousseau, has nothing to ask for the profitability of economic activities and lives in a world where rights are for them and duties for others (…),” he adds.

A new debate in the Assembly

Beyond the brand of 500,000 signatures, a petition makes it possible to activate a new debate in the Assembly, but without vote. “Behind, surely there will be an organized debate in the National Assembly to say what has been said for six months,” said Laurent Dupomb of France Télévisions, specifying that “there were debates, either in the Senate at the beginning, during the Joint Committee, in conclusion of the Joint Commission.”

If this bill, adopted in July, causes so much dispute, it is remarkably because it proposes the reintroduction of a neonicotinoid pesticide. A product that has been prohibited in France since 2020.

“The ANSS Director clearly said that the decision of the prohibition had not been taken under the appearance of the scientific study. (…) Acetamipride is authorized in 26 countries in 27 in Europe, continues Senator LR of Haute-Loire, all scientists from all over Europe, except France, gave their approval to continue until 2033,” says the senator.

The text, which also facilitates the storage of water in the Megabasinos, was presented as an response to the anger of the farmers who had manifested massively in 2024.