Stopping off this Saturday, June 12 in a Charolais farm in Auxois, Gilles Platret and Christian Jacob spoke with players in the agricultural sector. The President of the Republicans indicated that he had “real hopes of conquering” Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
For two days, on June 11 and 12, Gilles Platret traveled through the Doubs and then the Côte-d’Or in the company of Christian Jacob, president of his political party, the Republicans.
In Auxois, bathed in an already summery sun, the reception of Christian Jacob and Gilles Platret is done in small groups for a sequence prepared by the running mate Christelle Muther.
“That the Region support its farmers more directly”
This Saturday, June 12, 2021, in Pont-et-Massène, there are a few handpicked farmers, Republican activists as well as actors in the agricultural sector and mass distribution.
The hosts, the Baudot brothers, take advantage of the passage of political personalities to pass on a message: “may the Region support its farmers more directly”.
In fact, the breeders in question note the aid that comes to support the agricultural sectors or professional organizations more than the farms themselves. “When the farmer is doing well, he has an income, so he invests everything else will work behind,” says Michel Baudot.
Negus, 4 years, 1.5 tons
“He is magnificent”, “he is a super bull”, exclaims in the delegation when Jean-Luc Baudot approaches the barrier with Négus, a four-year-old Charolais bull weighing 1.5 tonnes.
Christian Jacob and Gilles Platret pass through the enclosure to admire it more closely and take some photographs. A regular at agricultural shows, Négus lets himself go quietly while Christian Jacob salutes “years and years of passion and work”.
“Real hopes of conquest” of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
“Gilles Platret is an excellent candidate”, indicates Christian Jacob. “These departmental and regional elections are decisive for us, it is the demonstration of our territorial anchoring. (…) We have returned to victory in the municipal elections, we have to do it in the departmental and regional ones. This is what will put us in the best conditions for the next presidential election, ”analyzes the President of the Republicans.
“The objective is to maintain our positions but there are Regions that we can win today if we mobilize properly. In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, we have real hopes of conquest because Gilles [Platret] was able to bring people together and have a program with all of their running mates which is very close to reality. We have won a regional one by providing concrete answers to our fellow citizens. With all the subjects that are asked, whether on economic action, agriculture of course, tourism, industry, management of high schools, transport … When we talk about high schools, transport, we necessarily talks about safety, ”explains Christian Jacob.
“Beyond that, the demonstration he made in the management of his City of [Chalon-sur-Saône], I think that many expect there to be the same boom at the level of the Region ”, considers Christian Jacob.
“We must meet the expectations of our fellow citizens by seeking out the best”, evokes Christian Jacob about the alliances made in the first round by Gilles Platret.
“There is a real agricultural stake in this campaign”
“Christian Jacob is a man of the field”, rebounds Gilles Platret. “He has a sense of the collective and he spends his time throughout France to support the friends of his political family. (…) It honors me, ”he adds.
“There is a real agricultural stake in this campaign. Christian [Jacob] comes from the earth world. He is the only peasant who, by the grace of Jacques Chirac, became the boss of the ÉNA when he became Minister of the Public Service. For that alone, he had his place here, ”enthuses the candidate to the applause of those present.
Responding to growing global food demand
“Agriculture and food are a determining issue for Republicans,” said Christian Jacob, speaking while, to cool off, the small group settled in the shade of the landscaped area which adjoins the enclosure. For the president of the political party, it is a question of interesting “the whole [des] fellow citizens ”by broadening the agricultural theme, which is sometimes technical, to the issue of food.
According to Christian Jacob, the challenges that agriculture will have to face in the coming years are “food sovereignty” and the response to “the growth in world food demand”. For this, the President of the Republicans says he is attached to the “three pillars of sustainable development” – including economic profitability – by encouraging people to avoid importing organic products with “certifications that we do not know” from distant countries.
“We defend our roots, it is the absolute priority”
“What we try to do is first of all to represent the field, even before being a list with political ideas and ours are not negotiable even if we have gathered broad convictions”, declares to the candidate’s turn. “There is a real stake in sincerity in this fight,” he addressed with emotion to his few interlocutors.
“We defend our roots, that’s the top priority. We are elected in a region because we love that region and want to defend it. We want to defend the people who work there, who create value and who live there in the broad sense, ”explains Gilles Platret.
“Charolais is a race for excellence, from generation to generation. It is this capacity that our farmers had to always aim high. It is demanding, it is formidable specifications and, at the end of the day, it is an agriculture which already has a margin which allows to live ”, analyzes the Chalonnais.
Proposals for agriculture
The candidate proposes to create a “parliament of agriculture” taking into account viticulture and forestry to bring together all the stakeholders twice a year in order to define “guidelines” as well as a regional agricultural fair on the Rennes SPACE model.
Along the way, Gilles Platret attacks the installation of wind turbines and defends the hunters. A way of putting forward environmental positions linked to its agreements with the independent environmental movement of Antoine Waechter and the Rurality Movement (formerly Hunting, fishing, nature and traditions).
Paraphrasing General de Gaulle, Gilles Platret claims “the need in this complex world to have simple ideas” such as work, rurality and respect for lifestyles.
The weight of agribashing
Before the sequence on cattle breeding, the delegation visited another farm in Auxois on the theme of soil conservation in cereal production, a cultural approach that differs from organic farming by the use of phytosanitary products. of synthesis with the objective of using particularly small quantities.
According to Gilles Platret’s entourage, initially the farmers would have deplored that the carbon capture linked to their practice was not valued. Secondly, they rose up against “agribashing”.
Previously, the delegation had gone to Beaune in the morning for a stroll around the market and then a meeting of representatives of sports clubs.
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
Exceptional Charolais in Auxois
“We have to reconnect with the local roots that lead to patriotism”, says Gilles Platret
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