How the far right hopes to profit from the anger of farmers across Europe

Jordan Bardella à Queyrac. MAXPPP – Jean Maurice Chacun

Soon alongside the fishermen, Jordan Bardella (RN) hopes to garner votes for next June's election but also follow in the footsteps of his foreign counterparts.

Farmers live on European aid, the RN is against Europe… It is therefore a paradoxical choice that was made by Jordan Bardella to go, this weekend, to support angry farmers. But the sequence was carefully thought out and widely relayed in the media.

The message is engraved: "There is a movement of anger that is rising all over Europe and the common point of this movement of anger is the European Union and the Europe of Macron who wants the death of our agriculture (…) and who refuses farmers the right to live from their work”, launched the candidate for the European elections adding "the refusal to depend on permanent aid" is "probably the heart of this movement of anger& ;quot;.

A distorting prism

The day before, however, in Limoges, farmers dumped manure to "express their indignation at the persistent delay in the payment of aid from the common agricultural policy (CAP)"& hellip;

It is above all Brussels' environmental policy that farmers are contesting, but the RN pretends to see this movement as an anti-European fed-up. Soon alongside fishermen, he hopes to garner votes for next June's election but also follow in the footsteps of his foreign counterparts.

In the Netherlands, a movement of fellow farmers, which contested the limitation on the number of livestock farms decided by the government, won the local elections and became the main support of the party far right.

From the Netherlands to Germany

In Germany, last Monday, several thousand farmers blocked Berlin to show their anger after the government's decision to eliminate the rebate on agricultural diesel. They are actively supported by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Jordan Bardella will also be in Lorient tomorrow where he will meet the fishermen who have just had a one-month fishing ban imposed to preserve the dolphins of the Bay of Biscay. Perhaps the seeds of another anger…

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