Duplomb Law: After the censorship of acetamiprid, the left hails a "victory" and the RN cries scandal
The Constitutional Council on Thursday censored the most controversial provision of the Duplomb law, which provided for the conditional reintroduction of a banned pesticide from the neonicotinoid family.
By Le Parisien with AFP"A victory" for the left and the Confédération paysanne, an "unacceptable" decision for the FNSEA and the right, who are calling for "continuing the fight": these are the main reactions to the Constitutional Council's censure of the flagship measure of the Duplomb law , which aimed to conditionally reintroduce acetamiprid, a pesticide banned in France since 2018.
Marine Tondelier , national secretary of the Greens, called for "maintaining the pressure in every way possible." "We don't have the heart to cry victory. The Macronists have not listened to anything and it must come from the Constitutional Council," she continued.
Manuel Bompard , LFI coordinator, also called for the mobilization to "continue until the law is withdrawn and a government that is more dangerous than ever for the environment and health is censured."
Socialist Olivier Faure praised "a victory for ecology. A victory for health. A victory for democracy." "With full knowledge of the facts," the government "fervently supported and passed a law that denied scientific reality, backed down on the environment, flouted Parliament, reauthorized bee-killing pesticides, and sacrificed the health of farmers, consumers, and biodiversity," he said.
For Laurent Wauquiez , LR MP, it is "difficult (...) to find it normal that the Constitutional Council decides in place of elected officials to prohibit what was authorized 5 years ago. The level of interference by constitutional judges is becoming a real problem for our democracy."
"I acknowledge and respect the decision of the Sages," reacted to Le Parisien the LR senator who initiated the text, Laurent Duplomb, assuring that "the fight continues": "By deciding not to censor the entire law, the Constitutional Council recognizes its merits, it is a great satisfaction," he added, referring to the "obstruction practiced by the left-wing parties by tabling thousands of amendments."
Marine Le Pen , leader of the RN, also criticised this decision: "By behaving like a legislator when it does not have the democratic legitimacy to do so, the Constitutional Council is sawing off the branch on which it is sitting."
Jérôme Despey, first vice-president of the FNSEA, deplored "A shock, unacceptable and incomprehensible (...) It is unacceptable that the Constitutional Council continues to allow over-transpositions" of European law which authorizes acetamiprid until 2033 in the European Union.
According to the Confédération Paysanne, "this decision is only a half-hearted victory. Although it is good news for our health, for the beekeeping industry and for biodiversity in general (...) the remaining articles herald the end of independent, family-run and transmissible agriculture."
Future Generations welcomed a "victory, especially for health and biodiversity." The League Against Cancer noted that "vigilance remains," and that "the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) has established a link between exposure to pesticides and certain cancers since 2013."
Éléonore Pattery , who initiated the petition against the Duplomb law , which gathered more than 2.1 million signatures, praised the "incredible mobilization." "The voice of the people counts. It is legitimate. That's where the real work begins."
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