Clermont-Ferrand (AFP)

After three hours of "big debate" on pensions in Rodez on Thursday night, Emmanuel Macron spent the day Friday in Auvergne, first at the top of the breeding Cournon-d'Auvergne morning and evening in Clermont-Ferrand for 100 years of the newspaper La Montagne.

The head of state, who delayed the eve his displacement in the region because of the attack on the Prefecture of Police in Paris, decided at the last minute Thursday to spend the morning in this show, the most important meeting. you European breeders of cattle and sheep.

In Rodez, he also answered several questions from farmers worried about the pension reform, assuring them that thanks to it their retirement would never be less than 1,000 euros a month for those who have made full contributions.

"Our farmers have small pensions, which remain extremely low, sometimes only 400 or 500. With the reform, they will have not less than 1.000 euros, it will be the golden rule of the contributory base. more evenly but you will have a more equal retirement, "he replied to a farmer's mother adding," I'll go explain it to the farmers. "

As at the Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, the Head of State planned to walk the alleys of Cournon-d'Auvergne, which brings together 2,000 animals, and to go to the stands to discuss with exhibitors and the public. He had already visited farmers in the region during his "wishes for agriculture" in early 2018.

- "Exasperation" -

This presidential visit comes as two LREM deputies, Roland Lescure and Jean-Baptiste Moreau, were attacked at the farmers' summit on Thursday by farmers after their interventions in favor of Ceta, the EU-EU free trade agreement. Canada.

The Young Farmers of Puy-de-Dôme broadcast on Facebook a video, welcoming that Jean-Baptiste Moreau, himself a farmer, is "out of the summit, under the pressure of French farmers".

Mr. Moreau, MP for Creuse, told AFP that after a round table on the Ceta, "about fifty officials FNSEA and JA (...) (the) evacuated by (insulting) them and jostling them ".

Mr Lescure, chairman of the Assembly's Economic Affairs Committee, told AFP that he "deeply regretted that an agitating minority vehemently interrupted a debate on the issues of Ceta".

"Thursday's action was a bit harsh, but at the height of the exasperation of the breeders vis-à-vis these deputies, and it has our full support," told AFP Patrick Bénézit, national leader of the FNSEA.

Friday night, the head of state will visit the Polydome of Clermont-Ferrand, for the 100 years of the newspaper La Montagne.

After a speech at 18:00, he will take part in a question and answer session with employees of the press group and business leaders of the region and will visit an exhibition on the centenary of one of the oldest French regional dailies.

The daily newspaper held by the Center-France group, circulated to around 150,000 copies in 13 different editions, celebrates with this exhibition but also with a book, a stamp and a special issue, its foundation 100 years ago by Alexandre Varenne, a journalist and a man. policy.

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