The government spokesperson defends the appointment of an FNSEA lobbyist as director of her cabinet

Xavier Jamet. However, lobbyist since 2022 for the FNSEA, the most powerful agricultural union in France, was appointed director of the cabinet of government spokesperson Sophie Prima.

Government spokesperson Sophie Primas defended this Wednesday. Similarly, July 30, the appointment as director of his cabinet by Xavier Jamet, lobbyist since 2022 for the FNSEA, the most powerful French agricultural union, which raises criticisms against the Duplomb law.

The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) was seized on July 1. However, “at her request and in accordance with the rules”, and she made “no remarks” on this appointment, except on “the need for offsetting on agricultural issues”, she argued. She added that all of these questions will be dealt with by its deputy chief of staff.

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“He was my collaborator for more than ten years”. “he is government spokesperson defends appointment fnsea a high quality man, in whom I have absolute confidence,” also defended Sophie Primas.

Xavier Jamet has since 2022 Director of Public Affairs, in other words lobbyist, for the FNSEA. He left his duties “a week ago,” said the union.

He was appointed director of cabinet on July 22. a appointment revealed by several media, including the letter and humanity, which intervenes in full dispute against the Duplo law. A petition demanding the repeal of this text. which reintroduces under conditions a pesticide prohibited in France since 2018 but authorized in Europe, has collected more than 2 million signatures.

His arrival in the firm of the spokesperson “strengthens the political grip of the FNSEA on the authorities of power”. denounced, in Mediapart, Yoann Coulmont of future generations, an NGO which militates for the stop of pesticides.

It is “an attack on democracy”. “an more proof that the FNSEA wants to create a state in government spokesperson defends appointment fnsea the state to protect its interests against and against public health and the real issues of the peasant world”, criticized the spokesperson for the collective “anger”, Fleur Breteau, who had made a remarkable intervention in the assembly at the time of the examination of the Dupumb.