The farmers are preparing the descent of the tractors in Athens despite the government’s warning that it will not allow the citizens’ passage to be obstructed.
They insist and appear determined to descend on Athens with the tractors in two days, despite the fact that they received a negative response from the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis. According to information, the farmers who will not travel to Athens, are oriented towards blockades of customs and ports.
“Anyway we will go down with tractors and buses and cars. We are sure that there will be a very large rally not only with the large and massive participation of the farmers but also of the people of Athens who feel the accuracy on their skin” said the president of the Platykampos Block Coordination Committee, Rizos Maroudas.
“The point is that we don’t want to create problems, that’s what we emphasized to Mr. Minister in the city. We want to go peacefully and do our rally and get up and leave nicely and nicely” said the president of the Agricultural Association of Alexandria, Giorgos Diamantopoulos.
The provision was submitted to the Parliament which provides for the return of the Special Consumption Tax on agricultural oil this year as well, as well as the possibility of paying part of the amount in advance.
A zero coefficient is specified. The possibility of advance payments to farmers is foreseen, while the refund amounts will be inalienable and non-seizable in the hands of the State or third parties.
The Government declares that it has reached the limits of its financial capabilities and its interventions to support the agricultural world are responding to many problems.
“The government will implement what it committed to,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis told ERT, adding that the government’s interventions are responding to many problems of the agricultural world. He said, in this regard: “Every right of all citizens to demonstrate as provided by law. It is the duty of the government to respect the right but also to apply the law so that the passage of citizens is not impeded. I don’t think we’ll get to that point. We want the situation not to derail.”
“There is a possibility of mobilizations. Where they can escalate and claim. I am in favor of asserting the demands of the citizens, I am not in favor of settling the diaries” said the president of the SYRIZA KO, Sokratis Famellos, in the First Program.
“There is nothing else that can be given. Will they get in the way if they go down with a tractor? I can’t go into business and say how the police will work, I say that symbolically the farmers can demonstrate from there and beyond that I don’t think that citizens will be able to be prevented from going to work” said the director of the Press Office of Prime Minister, Dimitris Tsiodras.
“My impression is that the government suddenly remembered the agricultural issue when it saw the tractors on the roads. And he decided to take action,” said PASOK MP Giorgos Nikitiadis to ERT.
The farmers’ block in Megala Horafia in Chania was visited earlier by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, who spoke to those gathered.
Source: ertnews
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