If elected, Marine Le Pen will suspend all legal immigration to France. Polls suggest she is neck and neck with Emmanuel Macron, ahead of Sunday's first round of voting. However, in a world of alternative facts shared by the Russian-state-funded news operation Sputnik, François Fillon is leading in the polls. A very loud voice comes from farmers protesting about the difficulties of the agricultural industry. 600 committed suicide last year, but little has been done to address French farming’s deepest crisis since World War II. The hidden tragedy is European, and across Europe farmers have been protesting on the streets at ever-increasing intervals to highlight poor market returns for their produce. A fortnight ago members of the agriculture committee of the European Parliament held a minute's silence for those farmers who had committed suicide as a result of the ongoing crisis in agricultural markets. French farmers will be voting for Marine Le Pen. See
France: farmers and the election
Written by David Fletcher 21 Apr 2017Additional Info
- Pray: for people to recognise fake news for what it is, and for years of injustice within the ministry of agriculture to be addressed as a result of the final outcome of the French election. (Ps. 102:2)
- More: www.heraldscotland.com/business/farming/14371869.The_hidden_tragedies_of_farmer_suicides/