With the Duplomb law, "we are distracting the agricultural world from the challenges it faces"
Interview: With the 2 million signature mark against the Duplomb law, which is widely supported by farmers, having been passed, Socialist Party MP Dominique Potier is calling for a better outcome by entrusting the arbitration to science. In this case, ANSES.
Interview by Morgane Bertrand
Socialist Party MP Dominique Potier speaks during a debate at the National Assembly ahead of the vote on the Duplomb law on agriculture, which aims to reintroduce a pesticide for certain crops, in Paris, July 8, 2025. GUILLAUME BAPTISTE / AFP
In 2020, when Julien Denormandie, then Minister of Agriculture, defended a law authorizing the temporary reintroduction of neonicotinoids in sugar beet cultivation, the socialist MP Dominique Potier, also an organic farmer, proposed "a plan B for beet" . Five years before the great anger that mobilized farmers, he already noted that "we cannot, molecule after molecule...
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