Farmer protests, which have been on the media’s agenda this week, will continue over the weekend.According to the 6-F platform, which was established on social networks and warned that there may be disruptions in transportation routes to the capital early on Friday. Another hot spot pointed out by those participating in the protests is the Goya premiere being held in Valladolid this Saturday. Agricultural workers launched a series of tractor rallies on Tuesday to make visible the problems facing the primary sector in the heat of mobilizations in France. The first two days of concentrations were organized spontaneously via WhatsApp and Telegram groups, anticipating the official calendar set by the major agricultural associations (Asaja, COAG and UPA), starting on Thursday with demonstrations in Ávila, Salamanca, Zamora, Ciudad Real and Huesca. and this continued on Friday in Bilbao, Zamora and Extremadura. Tensions with security forces have been rising throughout the week, and a fourth day of protests left some 20 detainees, 7,925 people identified for possible sanctions and 3,035 administrative complaints regarding road closures, sources said.
The 6-F platform, which calls for taking the capital of Spain this Saturday, If the demonstrations are paralyzed, the fifth consecutive day of protests in the square of the Metropolitan stadium in Madrid finally called for voting tomorrow and concentration of farmers and ranchers or followed by a major strike. The platform noted that hunters, fishers and other sectors linked to the primary sector have already announced their support for this initiative and their participation in this event.
Faced with the prospect of a ‘tractor’ in front of the PSOE headquarters in Madrid, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska made the following warning: “They will not allow” tractor and road closures Events occurring in several autonomous communities reach Ferraz. “We are not aware of any communication,” Marlaska said in an interview with TVE, when asked about some farmer groups calling for access to the capital to reach Ferraz. Still, he warned, “they won’t allow it.”
Another of their goals to gain visibility for their protests is to reach Valladolid and express their complaints during the Goya Gala celebrations held in this city. The organization emphasized that the National Police paralyzed the “peaceful march” of farmers and transporters 20 kilometers from Valladolid for the gala.because, according to them, “they fear that media influence will be used to gain visibility, which is clearly not true.”
Regarding this Friday, farmers’ protests have resulted in numerous traffic closures on highways and expressways and concentration in some state capitals. Rallies were held in many cities. From Bilbao and Burgos to Malaga, passing through León, Jaén, Logroño, Zamora or Seville. The biggest consequences were felt in traffic, with delays and closures on many highways and roads in different autonomous communities.
Inside Castile la ManchaTractors reached the center of Toledo and Ciudad Real, cutting off the A-3 highway (Madrid-Valencia) in several sections and causing traffic disruptions in AP-36 (Ocaña-La Roda), North Carolina. – Eclipses on 301 passing through Corral de Almaguer (Toledo) and N-430 passing through the municipality of Villarrobledo (Albacete). In Andalusia, in order to surround the city of Seville, dozens of tractor drivers who could not reach the center joined a slow march to reach the Plaza de España, where the headquarters of the Government Delegation and the Sub-Delegation are located. It is located.
One of the most serious events of the day It occurred as highway CL-629 passes through the municipality of Valle de Mena; where the Civil Guard arrested a tractor driver in his 60s who crossed the road in his tractor to avoid being hit by a car while participating in an undeclared protest. left him behind. The driver was seriously injured.
Protests will continue next week
For your part, The industry’s leading associations have moved away from this strategy and guaranteed that they will not take action this weekend.. Congestion will continue next Monday in Alicante and on regional roads in the Madrid Region. Looking ahead to next Wednesday, Asaja, COAG and UPA have called for mobilization in seven states (Toledo, Guadalajara, Jaén, Seville, Palencia, Soria) and a rally will also be held in Mercamadrid. Unión de Uniones continues its protest calendar in Spain and its big journey, which is planned to reach Madrid on Wednesday, February 21.
Agricultural organizations demand urgent solutions from the central government to address rural problems related to the consequences of drought and war in Ukraineprices and production costs, the simplification and flexibility of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and labor and Social Security issues.
Traffic disruptions are already affecting companies and individuals, which is why the mass consumption value chain consisting of Aecoc, ACES, Anged, Asedas and FIAB, respecting these protests, claimed this week that rural mobilizations were not carried out. At the cost of paralyzing the free movement of goods and people, as is already the case in various parts of the region. For this reason, Some consumer goods companies are already reporting delays and incidents at the entrance and exit of their platforms in Catalonia, Madrid, Castilla y León or Levante.although problems are not expected in the supply to points of sale, among other areas.