Countryside anger leads to twenty tractor units across Spain

In particular, the demonstrations called by these agricultural organizations, with whom Minister Planas met on Friday, Will start from 8th February in Ávila, Salamanca, Ciudad Real and Huesca; On the 9th they will be in Zamora, Bilbao and Extremadura; in La Rioja and Zaragoza on the 13th; on the 14th in Toledo, Guadalajara, Jaén, Seville, Palencia and Soria; 15th in Castellón; 21st in Murcia; at Aragon and Cadiz on the 22nd; and in Lyon on the 23rd.

This is a provisional calendar, focused on the month of February, which will be completed with the announcement of protests in more parts of Spain, and will involve practically all of them. Slow march and/or road closure, Organizers consulted by the ABC confirm.

The farmers’ protest will come despite the rapprochement that Agriculture Minister Luis Planas wanted to symbolize on Friday, who sat down with the three organizing organizations, made sure he understood their claims and pointed directly at Brussels, saying: “If we are here today it is because the European Commission and the EU have not been able to carry forward the dialogue with the rural world that we have been doing here in Spain since 2018. If they had started it, we would not be here European level,” he said. The minister, who described the meeting as “very positive”, stressed that it allowed him to “verify that many issues were discussed, given what is happening in Europe and especially in France”. we solved them here», he assured.

Despite this, through protests taking place throughout the month, Spain’s farmers will take to the streets, focusing their attention on Europe: «have to concentrate on the fieldAfter the meeting with Planas, Asja’s vice-president stressed, “We have European elections soon and rural areas are living in a storm with drought, prices and a European policy that puts environmental protection over the rights of farmers and herders.” Gives priority.” Jose Manuel Cebolada.

Convened by these three organizations that officially represent the region, However, they will not be alone, Actually, farmers were called for demonstration first. federation of unions, He called for the next 21 February, a tractor-trailer that would pass through different provinces and end up that day at the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture in Madrid; In addition, it is organizing rallies in different cities of Castilla y León for this month. Also that day, on February 21, he will protest before the Unión de Pejasos (UP), the Ministry of Agriculture, which a week earlier, on the 13th, called for action in marches on the highways in Tarragona and in the port of Tarragona in protest against ” Have done.” “Imports of goods that provide unfair competition to Catalan products.”

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group of WhatsApp The farmers and herders of Castilla y Leon have been burning for several days. Without agricultural organizations behind them, they have been They have already called for and achieved mobilization Expressing “fatigue” in many provinces, they say, they are facing “dire” and “suffocating” conditions in the sector in a community where agribusiness has a higher importance in its economy than the national average. . And, they warn, “It will be non-stop”Since the professionals from the Zamora region were the first to leave, there was a breath of protest in Europe behind them, already on Wednesday of last week with “spontaneous” tractor movements that have not stopped since then, even during the weekend.

The movement is already spreading, and a day is planned for Tuesday, in which an attempt will be made to stop the protests in several cities by using tractors that will not stop. Leon followed in Zamora’s wake; Vehicles took to the asphalt in Ávila, as in Valladolid, where this Monday the protests reached the city center, causing complications in traffic. Or Salamanca, where the mobilization of the previous days in Portuguese territory again jumped to the Spanish side of the border with Portugal to cut the A-62. Most of them are mobilizations not called by organizations, but they have joined some They reject politicization of their demandsWhich points above all to Europe and its “extreme environmentalism” and “bureaucracy”.