Although strategies have changed between 1980 and 1990 - due to the fact that the parties in power have alternated - the deputies' conception of the future of the farming and rural world has stayed rather the same. Deputies have always tried to justify that the « rural world as environment » and the « rural world as community » are overpowered by the « rural world as economic activity » ; they also tried to produce a new symbolic representation from the old one. They have made theirs the themes that are part of the rural myth (the « everlasting rural world », the « deep rural world ») in order to overcome the contradictions inherent in their duties.
