The Pays-de-la-Loire regional council will donate 3,000 euros to an event which took place this summer and which promotes hunting with hounds.
The elected left, ecologists in the head, are opposed to this symbolic subsidy.
This is a tiny expense compared to the budget of the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council. But its symbolic dimension arouses the anger of the left opposition. This Friday, the regional majority of Christelle Morancais (LR) will submit to the vote of its standing committee a somewhat special subsidy since it involves paying 3,000 euros to the Fête de la Chasse in the town of Vernoil-le-Fourrier ( Maine-et-Loire), near Saumur.
This event, supported within the framework of the “regional fund for intervention, studies and promotion”, has already taken place on August 14 and 15.
It promotes the different hunting methods, including digging up and hunting with hounds.
Elected environmentalists will vote against the subsidy.
They denounce this support for "a traditional but above all cruel practice of mistreatment and killing of animals, which no longer has its place in our society and whose abolition is demanded by a large majority of the population".
A conflict of interest?
The other contentious point about this financial assistance is that the mayor of Vernoil-le-Fourrier, Sylvie Beillard, is also a regional councilor for the majority. A seat she has occupied since the end of June. Apart from the Hunting Festival organized in his town was not subsidized by the region in previous years. “It challenges us, notes the environmental group. There is better to do with public money. "
In parallel with this subsidy, environmentalists and socialists are opposed to two other financial supports submitted to the vote of the standing committee of the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council on Friday.
One of 50,000 euros in favor of the network of private schools outside the Espérance banlieues contract.
The other of 44,000 euros in favor of Methatlantique, an association which defends anaerobic digestion projects of all sizes and chaired by the development director of Nature Energy, the Danish company which carries the disputed XXL methaniser project in Corcoué-sur- Logne (Loire-Atlantique).
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