Opposition members and Greenpeace have criticized the member “walker” Mickaël Nogal, future number two of the National Food Industries Association (ANIA).
Le Monde
Members of the Opposition and Greenpeace have pinned Mickaël Nogal (the Republic on March, LRM), which must be appointed in March two of the National Association of Food Industries (ANIA), listed as a lobby. .
“Mickaël Nogal, currently a member of Haute-Garonne, is appointed today’s Chief Executive Officer of the Ania. He will take office on the next March, after the end of the parliamentary session “, announced in a release issued Wednesday the association which represents French food companies. “I am very proud and happy to join the ANIA to put my experience serving the country’s first industry,” said Nogal, cited in the same communiqué.
“I will not cumulate the two activities. The day I start at the Ania, I will no longer be deputy,” said Nogal at the France-Press agency (AFP). He clarified his intention to resign from his MP for the Upper Garonne, without giving a specific timetable.
Since the 2016 Fir Fir Act, parliamentarians can no longer exercise an interest representative activity.
“A nice gift for this lobby”
The announcement of this future taking of office has reacted Greenpeace France, considering it was “a nice gift for this lobby, which is one of the most powerful of the sector”. “Fusion of the Republic in March and Lobbies: Episode 529”, has ironed the non-governmental organization (NGO) on Twitter.
And hop, once again, a political representative file offers its services and networks to private. A nice blow … https://t.co/icqws61sp7
“In Macronia, the members first obey the lobbies. Then they become lobbyists too,” Man Manuel Bompard, MP and Campaign Manager of the “Insoumit” candidate to the presidential, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
In #Macronia, deputies first obey the lobbies. Then they become lobbyists too. https://t.co/gttqllcjvh
Delphine Batho, Ecologist and Spokesperson for Yannick Jadot, also noted on Twitter that the end of the parliamentary session did not correspond at the end of the MP.
End of the session, but not the end of the mandate. # ethnology #lobby https://t.co/59cop4e2dp
m. Nogal clarified the AFP having worked in the agri-food before its mandate as a member of Parliament and have “deported to these subjects” since 2017. “Since always, I have made sure there was no conflict of Interest, “said Nogal, who specialized on the subject of housing and was a co-supporter of the Climate and Resilience Law and the 3DS Act, which is still debated in Parliament.
m. Nogal, which was one of the youth workers with Macron, had announced, in The dispatch of the Midi , its intention not to Represent the next legislative.