A president silenced. Denis Laizé, head of the Chamber of Agriculture of Maine-et-Loire, attended the ceremony of greetings from the consular chambers, scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 in the greenhouse of the Le Fresne agricultural high school, in Ponts-de-Cé near Angers. But due to elections within the structure he chairs, he did not speak.
It was therefore François Beaupère, the president of the Pays de la Loire Chamber of Agriculture who is not running for office, who took the microphone.
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“There are expectations”
But when you think about it, it doesn't matter who the speaker is as long as you get the message. A message which joins that delivered by Matthieu Billiard, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Maine-et-Loire (CCI 49) and Nadège Dekenuydt, at the head of the Chamber of Trades and Crafts.
-“The current lack of political stability, which we are all experiencing, has not brought its share of serenity, noted François Beaupère. There are regulatory expectations and more general expectations of administrative simplification. »
“We are pillars of the territorial economy”
Nadège Dekenuydt says nothing else. “We are pillars of the territorial economy, however, for this dynamic to continue, it is imperative to guarantee our businesses conditions conducive to their development. This requires two fundamental elements: stability and readability. »
For Matthieu Billiard, it is so necessary that“there is an urgent need to regain governmental stability, to have a coherent budget, real administrative and regulatory simplification and rules of the game which are the same for us as those which exist in other countries”.
