Jérémy Decerle

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Jérémy Decerle (born July 1, 1984 in Saint-Rémy , Saône-et-Loire department ) is a French farmer , trade unionist and non-party politician. Decerle was chairman of the youth union organization Jeunes agriculteurs from 2016 to 2019 . Since the 2019 European elections , in which he was on the list of La Republique en Marche! ran, he is a member of the European Parliament as part of the Renew Europe group.

Life

Youth and education

Jérémy Decerle was born on July 1, 1984 in Saint-Rémy ( Saône-et-Loire , Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region ) and grew up as the son of a herding family in Chevagny-sur-Guye . He is the son of Daniel Decerle, socialist mayor of his municipality and a councilor for the canton of La Guiche until his death in 2008 , and nephew of Christian Decerle, president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Chamber of Agriculture.

Decerle studied at the Saint-Gengoux-le-National secondary school and at the private agricultural high school Ressins in Nandax before graduating from Gueugnon with his agricultural diploma . He then studied abroad before taking over the family business at the age of 24 after the death of his father. In 2019, his farm consisted of around a hundred Charolais cattle.

Political commitment

Jérémy Decerle has been involved in the youth union organization Jeunes agriculteurs , which belongs to the French agricultural union fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles , since he was 16 . He has been a member of the board since 2012 and was elected chairman of the association in 2016.

Regardless of his trade union work, Decerle was elected to the council of his village Chevagny-sur-Guye in 2008 and was confirmed in the 2014 elections.

Entry into the European Parliament

At the end of 2018, the ruling party of French President Emmanuel Macron nominated La Republique en Marche! , Decerle as a non-party candidate for fourth place on the party's European election list. In March 2019, Decerle resigned as chairman of Jeunes agriculteurs .

In the course of the election campaign he was accused by the leading candidate of the French green party Europe Écologie-Les Verts , Yannick Jadot , of being "valuable support for glyphosate and Monsanto". In fact, he was listed as a political supporter by the pesticide and seed companies. The French edition of the Huffington Post presented Decerle together with the green candidate Benoît Biteau as antagonists of the future EU agricultural policy, as they contradicted each other on crucial points such as the reform of the common agricultural policy or the release of glyphosate.

La Republique en Marche won the election! with 22.2 percent 23 of the 79 French mandates, so that Decerle moved in directly. Like his fellow candidates on the list, he joined the renamed liberal group Renew Europe . For the group he is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a deputy member of the Committee on International Trade .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cécile Bouretal-Constant: Chevagny-Sur-Guye - Élections européennes. Jérémy Decerle, “un gamin du village” élu député européen. In: Le Journal. May 28, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Fanette Bon et Camille Mordelet: PORTRAIT. Jérémy Decerle, un Jeune Agriculteur en 4th position on the list LREM aux européennes. In: Ouest France. March 26, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Politique. Elections européennes: Jérémy Decerle (Renaissance) invité en Meuse. In: L'Est Républicain. May 6, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Thierry Dromart: Saone-et-Loire - jeunes agriculteurs. Jérémy Decerle élu national president. In: Le Journal. June 2, 2016, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ Européennes: les agriculteurs partagés sur la présence de l'un d'eux sur la liste LREM. In: L'Obs. March 29, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  6. ↑ Européennes: le président des Jeunes Agriculteurs Jérémy Decerle 4e sur la liste En Marche. Retrieved January 3, 2020 (French).
  7. ^ Maël Thierry and Alexandre Le Drollec: Pro-Monsanto et chasseur? Jérémy Decerle, l'agriculteur de la liste LREM, répond à Yannick Jadot. In: L'Obs. May 15, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  8. ^ Anthony Berthelier: Deux paysans en campagne, deux visions antagonistes de l'agriculture pour l'Europe. In: Huffington Post. May 14, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Home | Jérémy DECERLE | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Decerle, Jérémy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French farmer, trade unionist and politician (non-party), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rémy , Saône-et-Loire department