Neonicotinoids: How have MPs' votes on the issue evolved over 10 years?

Data Consistency on the left, massive support on the right, hesitation among Macron supporters: ten years after the vote to ban neonicotinoids, five years after the first exemptions, how have the votes of the deputies evolved? A closer look.

By Renaud Février

Published on July 18, 2025 at 2:33 p.m. , updated July 21, 2025 at 1:57 p.m.

On July 8, Parliament adopted a law designed to "lift constraints" on farmers, which will reintroduce acetamiprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide that is highly toxic to bees. ILLUSTRATION - BERTRAND BODIN/ONLY FRANCE VIA AFP

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Neonicotinoids: the term, long unpronounceable by politicians and commentators, has become a fixture in public debate over the years. In fact, during the recent adoption in Parliament of the bill intended to "remove constraints on the exercise of the farming profession," initiated in particular by the Republicans (LR) senator Laurent Duplomb, the reintroduction of acetamiprid, an insecticide from the neonicotinoid family, used preventively as seed coatings, was undoubtedly the most criticized measure.

Banned since 2018, in application of the law for the reconquest of biodiversity, nature and landscapes (adopted in 2016), neonicotinoids, which act on the central nervous system of insects, have since been the subject of texts in Parliament: the first in 2020, already aiming to reintroduce some of these insecticides, the second being the Duplomb law, demanded by the National Federation of Agricultural Operators' Unions...