The 2.1 million people who signed the petition calling for the repeal of the “Duplomb law” are closely watching for the decision of France’s Constitutional Council, expected on Thursday, August 7. This contentious piece of legislation was intended to “remove obstacles to the practice of the farming profession.”
Rarely has a petition sparked such enthusiasm in France. On July 10, two days after the final adoption of the legislation, Eléonore Pattery, a student unknown to the general public, published a statement on a platform of the Assemblée Nationale denouncing a law passed with no debate at first reading in the chamber, and which has mobilized the scientific community against it. Among the controversial points, the legislation allows for the conditional reintroduction of acetamiprid, a pesticide banned in France since 2020.
Four weeks later, the petition has become the second most signed in French history – second only to “L’Affaire du siècle” (“The Case of the Century”), which gathered 2.3 million signatures on Change.org in 2018 to support a lawsuit against the French state for climate inaction – and the first on a platform where identities are verified.
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