Insumise France asks the President of the Republic to initiate “a new deliberation” in Dupumb’s law, while the petition requested its repeal borders in 1.6 million signatures this Tuesday, July 22.
“According to article 148 of the regulation of the National Assembly, a petition that had crossed the threshold of the 500,000 signatures can lead to a parliamentary debate, at the initiative of the Presidents Conference,” is based on Mathilde Panot, president of the Rebel Group in the National Assembly.
A lever that in fact can be activated if these 500,000 signatures come from at least 30 different departments or communities.
“This debate should take place. But that cannot be enough,” he continues in his letter while evoking a series of signatures that “testifies a massive rejection” of the population.
Mathilde Panot asks the President of the Republic to request the Parliament for a new exam “of all or part of the law.” “It will have 12 days after the decision (of the Constitutional Council), which is expected no later than August 10, to use this prerogative.”
The president of the LFI group in the National Assembly demands the “responsibility” of Emmanuel Macron “as guarantor of the Constitution,” he insists.
“A series of greater falls”
Dupomb’s law, nicknamed “Pesticide Law” by its opponents, was adopted on July 8 in Parliament and provides for reintroduction in a dismissal and under conditions of acetamiprid, pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids, prohibited in France but authorized in Europe.
This Law “embodies an important setback series in terms of environmental protection, with potentially dramatic consequences for public health,” recalls Mathilde Panot in his letter, a position shared by the deputies of the left with all the confused parties but also environmental associations, members of the scientific communities and the citizens, which resulted in the creation of a petition at the site of the National Assembly.
A “instrumentalized” text for Senator Dupumb
During the parliamentary trip of the text, its own rapporteur, Julien Dive (LR), had presented a preliminary rejection motion, justified by the “obstruction” of the left, which had deposited several thousand amendments.
Mathilde Panot also assumed an action, which justifies the need for a second deliberation of the law citing “the support of the text (which) have presented a motion of preliminary rejection against their own project, thus avoiding any debate in the public session.”
Since then, Senator Laurent Dupomb (LR) at the origin of the homonymous law has denounced a petition “instrumentalized by the extreme left and by environmentalists”, whose system “pressure on the Constitutional Council and the hope that the law does not validate” is made.
Source: BFM TV
