"There are absolutely nothing but horrors left in this law": LFI will submit a bill to repeal the Duplomb law

The debates on the Duplomb law in the chamber are far from over, despite its partial censure by the Constitutional Council . La France Insoumise will submit a bill to repeal the entire text in its next parliamentary "niche" in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, the leader of the LFI deputies, announced this Sunday, August 24.

"Thanks to the exceptional mobilization that took place during the summer, thanks to the appeal that we, the rebels, filed with the Constitutional Council, we have won a first victory," declared the rebel MP for Val-de-Marne, during a speech at the movement's summer universities in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère. But "there are absolutely nothing but horrors left in this law," she stressed, accusing it of " favoring factory farms [...] and mega-basins." "Between the interests of money and the survival of the human species, we must choose. And we have chosen," she added.

The next parliamentary "niche" of La France Insoumise, the day during which a group sets the agenda for the National Assembly, is scheduled for November 27.

The Duplomb law, intended to lift the constraints weighing on the farming profession, adopted in Parliament at the beginning of July with the support of the Macronists, LR and the extreme right , was the subject of a vast protest movement, including within the scientific world.

A petition calling for its repeal has gathered more than 2.1 million signatures on the National Assembly website, an unprecedented number, allowing for a future, essentially symbolic, debate to be held in the Assembly.

On August 7, the Constitutional Council censored the most contested provision of the Duplomb law, which provided for the conditional reintroduction of a banned pesticide from the neonicotinoid family, acetamiprid .

The "Sages," however, approved the administrative simplifications granted to larger livestock farms, as well as to the construction of water storage facilities for agricultural purposes - the so-called mega-basins. However, the measures adopted must not allow water to be drawn from inertial water tables - which empty or fill slowly - and must be able to be challenged before a judge.

The following week, Emmanuel Macron signed the law into law, ruling out the possibility of requesting a new deliberation by Parliament.