Duplomb Law: 4 government hoaxes debunked to force through, despite petition
Although rejected by more than one and a half million petitioners, the bill aimed at "lifting constraints on the farming profession" is firmly defended by the government camp. Refusing to hold a new vote, it clings stubbornly to largely questionable arguments.
Since 2017, the presidential camp has accustomed us to democratic coups and attacks on the environment. With the Duplomb law , supported hand in hand by most members of the "common base" (from Renaissance, LR, Modem and Horizons) and the agro-industry, he even thought he could kill two birds with one stone.
Why doubt since, in eight years, without really losing any feathers, Emmanuel Macron has alternately and without complex sat on protest movements (from the yellow vests to the pension reform), electoral verdicts (the NFP's arrival at the top of the last legislative elections), and ecology (from simplification laws dismantling environmental law to forcing through certain "major projects")?
Except that, as Racine wrote, "too much confidence brings danger." And, very often, in cases of abuse of power and denial of democracy, "the danger" is called "the people." Since July 10, in the middle of summer, an unexpected citizens' movement has arisen: more than one and a half million people have signed the petition to say "no."
While describing this law as a "scientific aberration,...
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