Dozens of farmers have broken into the Agricultural Show that Emmanuel Macron inaugurated this Saturday in Paris to protest in front of the French president. The event occurred after Macron inaugurated the Agricultural Show, at which time dozens of people they have forced a fencehave entered the premises early and had clashes with security forcesas can be seen in the main video that accompanies the news.

After several hours of high tension despite strong security measures, the President of France was received upon his arrival at the Agricultural Hall with whistles and boos of the attendees, and with cries of “Macron resign!”.

The traditional cutting of the cordon took place around 1:30 p.m. this Saturday, more than five hours after the arrival of the head of state at the Puerta de Versailles fairgrounds. Furthermore, the event was marked by incidents since the early hours of the day, when, parallel to the arrival of the French president Macron, in an attempt to calm the waters, he launched a type of informal debate in a closed room with dozens of representatives of unions and associations in the countryside.

With them, debated for two hours in a sometimes tense atmosphere, but mostly constructive in tone. “We are all going to achieve it together,” the president stressed, with promises that the Government will not forget its commitments and will establish measures to improve the situation in the countryside.

The farmers, for their part, they made Macron ugly especially the vagueness of the initiatives governments in the face of the urgent and immediate needs of the sector. Meanwhile, Macron noted that the current agricultural crisis cannot be resolved in a week and tried to explain some measures that his Government is preparing to respond to the claims of the countryside.

Among the topics discussed, the problem of guaranteeing water supplies Looking to the future, the difficulties of generational change or the implementation of a census of agricultural holdings in financial difficulties to improve State support at treasury level.

Likewise, there was also talk of the need to make the French Egalim law stricter, which guarantees farmers minimum purchase prices that cover your costsand the rejection of the countryside to the free trade agreement with Mercosur, something about which Macron stressed that there will be no agreement on the part of France if mirror clauses are not included.

Macron has also invited all union organizations in the countryside to meet him at the Elysée within three weeks.