The president says he sees the political will to unravel the errors that led to the farmers’ protest

“On this explicit case, which brought on dissatisfaction, we in all probability need to admit that sure errors, distortions, overstepping, should you can name them that,” G. Nausėda stated in an interview on the LRT present “Dienos Tema” on Tuesday.

That is how he spoke to the protesting farmers who gathered within the middle of Vilnius with roughly one and a half thousand farm gear.

They converse out in opposition to the elevated excise obligation on liquefied petroleum gasoline, the abolition of the diesel excise tax aid for his or her vehicles, the restoration of perennial grasslands, the event of protected areas. Farmers are additionally calling for an answer to the milk disaster and different issues.

Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas says that proposals have already been submitted to return the diesel low cost, in addition to to scale back the excise obligation on liquefied petroleum gasoline to 41 euros.

“It has now been clearly said that makes an attempt will likely be made to right these deviations within the close to future. That is, sadly, solely within the spring session, however they are going to be mounted. I see a sure political will to confess errors, which isn’t dangerous, as a result of it’s typically not accomplished. I hope that this may assist carry once more a standard dialogue and dialogue between farmers and the federal government,” stated the top of the nation.

On Tuesday, fashionable tractors and forest vehicles lined up in two rows alongside Gediminas Avenue from the Seimas to the Cathedral. Based on the Lithuanian Agricultural Council, farmers lacked persistence, as a result of in recent times the issues in agriculture weren’t solved, however deepened.