The second agricultural union plans to block certain access points to the Paris ring road this Sunday. A way to enter the professional agricultural election campaign.
In « an optimistic scenario »Serge Bousquet-Cassagne estimates that the Rural Coordination can win the presidency of 25 to 50 chambers of agriculture following the professional elections at the end of January. Against three currently. The thunderous president of the Lot-et-Garonne chamber is convinced that the time has come, for the second largest union in France, to « overturn the table ». Since the spectacular operation in the Rungis market warehouses in January 2024, renamed « heroic march » internally, the movement has multiplied the scandals: dumping of tons of waste in front of the Agen prefecture, blocking of the MSA of Perpignan, covering of radars in the Channel.
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