The farmers’ union, reputed to be close to the far right, has issued new threats to block the country, “to ask the government for a final burst of energy”.
They’ll do anything to impose their will. The Coordination rurale du Lot-et-Garonne (CR47), a particularly virulent farmers’ union during the angry farm movement in January, called this Monday for a new mobilization starting November 19 and for blocking rail freight in the absence of a response from the government. “End of the countdown, time for the agricultural revolt!” CR47 calls on “all farmers” to mobilize in front of their prefectures on November 19 “to ask the government to make a last stand”..
“Without a strong and immediate decision from the State”.the very next day, “farmers will block French food freight to give the government a taste of what our country will be like, tomorrow, without farmers.”added the Lot-et-Garonne branch of the union in a press release. This is not the first time this factional movement has carried out particularly aggressive actions in the south-west of France.
“We’re going to blockade the country
In March, around a hundred CR farmers marched on Bordeaux, forcing open the doors of the Regional Councilthen pouring slurry on the water mirror causing a loss of 35,000 euros and a month’s delay in opening the system. In October, CR47 had threatened to “block“the citybecause one of their members, accused of damaging the water mirror, was due to attend a hearing in Bordeaux.
The union therefore decided once again to use force to make itself heard. One of the union’s co-presidents, José Perez, explained that it was a case of “force majeure”. “national call already set in the greater South-West, in Occitania and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.”. “We’re going to ask for meetings with the prefects on the 19th and if we don’t get any response, we’ll go and blockade the country.”he added. “That leaves 15 days to finish harvesting what little crop we have and to sow, and then we’re off.”
The majority farm union alliance formed by the FNSEA and the Jeunes Agriculteurs (JA) has already announced a national action. “starting mid-November”.with no specific date. At the end of January, the CR47, which has a majority in the department where he has headed the Chamber of Agriculture for the past two decades, to the point of calling on him to resign. to constitute a veritable baronyA few days after lighting a fire of agricultural waste in front of the prefecture in Agen, the group initiated a large tractor convoy to the Rungis market of national interest.