Laurent Duplomb
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Union for a Popular Movement (until 2015)
Laurent Duplomb | |
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Duplomb in 2022 | |
| Member of the Senate | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | Haute-Loire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 October 1971 |
| Party | The Republicans (since 2015) Union for a Popular Movement (until 2015) |
Laurent Duplomb (born 24 October 1971) is a French politician of The Republicans serving as a member of the Senate since 2017.[1] He is also a dairy farmer and an agricultural unionist.
As a representative of the National federation of farm operators unions (FNSEA), he was president of the Haute-Loire's chamber of agriculture. He was also one of the regional presidents of the dairy group Sodiaal and member of the Candia supervisory board.
In 2025, he introduced the Senate's controversial "Duplomb law" (loi Duplomb), which in its original form, aimed to reintroduce use of a banned pesticide of the neocotinoid family known for its toxicity on human and pollinators insects.
Born in 1971, he is the son of a laborer and a housewife living in Rive-de-Gier.[2] He chose to become a dairy farmer.[3] He obtain a brevet de technicien supérieur in animal production and meet during his education his future spouse, studying in the same school.[4] He move with her in his parents in-laws' dairy farm in 1995. He then begin a union career by joining the Jeunes agriculteurs (JA) union, affiliated to the FNSEA. After that he started his political career, positioning himself in favor of a productivist agriculture.