The socialist group in the Senate on Wednesday requested the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry “on the question of agricultural income and agri-food trade relations”, hoping to “put an end to a system which is slowly killing our agriculture”.
While the mobilization of farmers throughout France has been progressing for several days, socialist senators have asked the President (LR) of the Senate, Grard Larcher, to set up a commission of inquiry on the subject of income.
It is time for a clear, precise and transparent diagnosis to be made on the practices of certain economic operators, the group indicated in a press release.
The creation of a commission of inquiry, with expanded powers of hearings and investigation, may be placed on the Senate’s agenda by decision of the Conference of Presidents. It can also be automatically created by the exercise of the annual drawing right of each parliamentary group, but the socialist group has already used its own for the 2023-2024 session.
The senator from Loire, Jean-Claude Tissot, questioned the government on this subject during the questions to the government session. Let’s not misdiagnose ourselves: the crisis is above all economic at a time when the agri-food giants are waging an ever-increasing war in which farmers are always the big losers, he said.
Let’s not say we didn’t do anything. In any case, this government, particularly on these subjects, has made a lot of progress, both on remuneration and on transitions, replied the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, by proposing to move further, more quickly.
The senatorial right, a majority in the Senate with its allies from the centrist group, for its part announced the tabling of a bill tending to respond to the agricultural crisis, 42 measures resulting in particular from a previous text for a shock to the competitiveness of the farm Franceadopted the upper house but never entered the agenda of the National Assembly.