"We must hear the anger": how the petition against the Duplomb law is cracking the "common core" from within

Almost two million disgruntled people, so what? Since 2017, this has been a common refrain in Macron's party. And the rallying around the petition opposing the Duplomb law, which notably aims to reintroduce acetamiprid, a pesticide banned since 2018, has done nothing to weaken it.

"This law aims to address the emergency situation facing certain sectors and prevent them from disappearing in the future ," said Annie Genevard, Minister of Agriculture, in defense of the bill. "I hope there will be a debate in the Chamber, but not a debate that revisits the law," said Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly.

"I won't be made to...