With a proposal to continue the mobilizations and to go down with tractors to Athens next Monday, the representatives of the farmers return to the blockades.
Already, in their statements outside the Maximou , they showed that they were not satisfied with the Prime Minister’s proposals.
However, according to initial estimates, the proposals for escalation are not expected to be demonstrated by all the farmers at the blockades and there are already estimates that in the coming days some will be thinned out.
The farmers of Thessaly, however, showed satisfaction with the Prime Minister’s commitment to have a second meeting with them to discuss in particular the demands concerning the relief of those affected by the bad weather Daniel.
Farmers made their first statements after the meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which concluded at the Maximou at noon on Tuesday.
Specifically, outside the Prime Minister’s office, the farmers’ representatives noted that a constructive dialogue took place, however, decisions will be taken at the blockades by the farmers themselves.
“Not all of our demands have been met, we will decide at our blockades,” a representative of the farmers said after the meeting.
Rizos Maroudas from the Platykambos blockade said, among other things, “We will go to our blockades, we will inform our colleagues all over Greece about what was discussed today , we will make decisions in our blockades.
We believe that the struggle must continue, the blockades must be strengthened even more in order to satisfy to the maximum extent possible the demands for survival that the agricultural movement of the country has put forward all these days,” he stressed.
What the farmers said with Mitsotakis: “We have brought the demands to all governments”
It is recalled that the meeting between the representatives of the farmers at the blockades and the Prime Minister seems to have taken place in a good climate without tensions and with constructive dialogue.
According to reports, the farmers stressed that the demands they brought to the table are “demands that we have brought to all governments and that we bring every year” with the Prime Minister for his part responding: “Let me thank you for your frank statements and the dignity with which you expressed your demands.
I would also like to point out that your mobilisations have been measured.
But enough to make the political leadership aware of the issues you are facing. I know that you are facing increased production costs”, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pointed out before announcing the government’s new initiatives.
On behalf of the committee, Rizos Maroudas noted: “The fact is that you yourself have said that we are right. There are many problems in the agricultural sector that need to be addressed and we want substantial solutions so that we can continue and stay in our villages – which is also an issue, because the countryside is deserted and everyone knows it very well, and there are many young people in the blockades who are fighting this battle to stay in the profession and in the village – and at the same time we can continue to produce.
To cultivate, to produce, to have quality and cheap food, as our country can produce very high quality food, for the nutritional sufficiency of our people.
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However, these problems that we have – we will, of course, talk about them in detail – particularly with regard to costs and prices, are a problem that is currently holding us back and is also evident in the continuing decline in the rural population. So today, with this fairness of our demands, we are coming here to find solutions.
We are waiting for the government to make announcements. We believe that there is a possibility, we appreciate that.
We will see that in the debate. However, there is also the fiscal possibility, if there is the will, to find solutions in this direction.”
