Cereal farmer in Tarn, Céline Imart, 41, was designated as number two on the list of the Les Républicains party, led by François-Xavier Bellamy, for the European elections. A graduate of prestigious establishments (Sciences Po and Essec), she is very involved in defending farmers against foreign goods.
Guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Wednesday, the political novice returned to the measures announced by the government to respond to the anger of French farmers. “Measures are going in the right direction but they are small measures, small band-aids,” she declared, thus unveiling certain proposals to resolve the agricultural crisis.
We need to “restore oxygen”
The number two on the LR list in the European elections spoke of the competitiveness shock as a driving force to “give oxygen back to people who are trying to work in this country” and denounced Emmanuel Macron’s promise to establish floor prices that she considers it a “bad idea”. “We are going to, by law, force manufacturers to buy more expensively, so farmers will gain in price but they will lose in volume because manufacturers will go and get their supplies elsewhere,” she said.
At Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone, Céline Imart also deplored the standards and constraints that she considers disconnected from reality. “We, the farmers, have standards all the time. We have standards to give us dates, when should we sow, harvest, get on our tractor, check, control, maintain the hedges, clean the ditches… Everything is difficult,” she explained.
“Farmers, we have the impression of being subjected. It’s terrible. We are in this France which works, which gets up every day, which is in the cities, in the countryside and we suffer. We suffer violence, we are suffering from uncontrolled immigration, we are suffering from this negligence of the State which is letting the debt slip away and we are suffering,” she pointed out, recalling that Les Républicains is the only right-wing list in the European elections. “We have this desire to give control of their destiny back to the French,” she concluded.