The Panhellenic Committee of the Blockades states in its statement that the tractors are leaving the blocks today, but the farmers will continue their mobilization in other ways.
In particular, the farmers are planning their next mobilizations with the “background” of the meeting with the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while at the same time, they emphasized that they will participate in Wednesday’s general strike.
The announcement of the Secretariat of the Panhellenic Committee of Blocks:
“On Tuesday 27/2 we return to our villages organized and coordinated throughout the country with our heads held high, proud of our struggle, which continues in various forms. We denounce the government for its intransigence and warn it that it will constantly find us in front of it.
The next day, Wednesday 2/28, we participate in many forms across the country in the 24-hour general strike showing our solidarity and denouncing the efforts to cover up the crime in Tempe a year later.
We are giving a new race date on Sunday, March 10 at 12 noon to commemorate the 114th anniversary of Killeler, at the site of the sacrifice of the Thessalian collies. To express our determination to continue fighting so that we can produce for ourselves and for all our people.
We continue – we will win!”
Farmers throughout the country are continuing to mobilize
Lemnos
At 12 noon, farmers with more than 100 tractors, found themselves in front of the Town Hall of Limnos and seem determined to continue their fight, according to limnosnea.gr.
A meeting was held at the town hall between the “Farmers’ Coordination” and the mayor of Limnos Mr. George and the prefect Mr. Koutsoyiannis.
Larissa
Farmers from the Platykambos block symbolically set fire to tires and straw today, Tuesday morning, in the Central Square of Larissa, as part of the end of their mobilizations, which they announced in a relevant announcement yesterday, Monday, stating that from today they are returning to the fields them and will continue the mobilizations in other forms.
The farmers leave the blockades – They will continue their mobilizations in a different way [εικόνες, βίντεο] – iefimerida.gr
the farmers arrived at the area of the square yesterday, where they spent the night, while in continuation of their mobilizations, they will move towards the area of Philippoupoli, where they will hold a protest once morest the former employees of the Piraeus Bank, which has stopped its operations since yesterday.
“The new CAP has turned everything into ashes, that’s why we also show that we can turn into ashes all those who don’t count on us. We are leaving here and going to support those who were fired from Piraeus Bank, in Philippopolis, thus showing our solidarity with all the people of the productive class, whom we have by our side. Tomorrow we are thinking of closing Tempi on the railway lines. The fight does not stop until we get justice”, said the farmer and member of the Bloc Coordination Committee Mr. Konstantinos Mitrodemos.
At the end of the protest, three people were brought to the Larissa Courthouse as being responsible for starting the fire, which was extinguished with the intervention of the Larissa Fire Service, and they were released immediately followingwards.
Janina
As reported by ERT, until Monday evening, dozens of tractors and agricultural machines that had arrived since 12 noon remained in the center of the city of Ioannina. Farmers and breeders of the prefecture demonstrated once once more asking for the satisfaction of their demands. With the long blockade, the curtain fell on the mobilizations in the form they have had for the last 40 days or so, pending the decisions in Brussels.
The members of the Competition Committee pointed out that the support of the agricultural world is the only way for the survival of the primary sector. asking for the reduction of production costs, but also controls for both the Greekizations and the prices of their products on the shelf.
Aetoloacarnania
Yesterday was a day of escalation of the agricultural mobilizations, in Etoloakarnania.
According to information from the OPEN television station, the farmers proceeded to protest demonstrations, both outside the town hall of Messolonghi, while they spent the night outside the building of the region of Western Greece in Messolonghi, carrying out a symbolic occupation of the space.
The farmers are expected to leave the District building today at noon, while, as they noted, there will be surprises during their departure. What the farmers emphasize is that these mobilizations will continue, as they can no longer cultivate their fields if solutions are not provided.
At the same time, some time ago the farmers of Etoloakarnania dumped a “truck” of manure and hay in front of the District building in Messolonghi.
Carditsa
The departure of the farmers and their tractors from the E65 junction in Karditsa, where they had been since January 24, began on Tuesday morning (27/2) in an attempt to demand the satisfaction of requests concerning chronic problems and the consequences of the catastrophic floods. that affected our region and more broadly Thessaly.
As reported by Karditsalive.net, the withdrawal of the tractors had been announced by the president of EOSK, Mr. Kon. Jella, during yesterday’s rally in Karditsa, pointing out that this is not the end of the farmers’ struggle, which, as was said, will continue in other forms.
In fact, the farmers of the area of Palamas, but also of Karditsa more broadly, will line up their tractors at the entrance of Palamas, where they will remain at least until the meeting with the prime minister, which is planned to take place on March 11 with the special problems of of Thessaly, without this meaning that the demands for a reduction in production costs, a revision of the CAP, anti-flood projects and in general everything that the agricultural world claims will not be made once more and imperatively
Mr. Tzelas, who together with the other members of the EOASK board oversaw the departure of the hundreds of tractors, emphasized in his statements that the struggle continues until the farmers’ problems are solved, excluding the unity that characterized this cycle of mobilizations, which also confirmed the grandeur, as he described it, of the rally in Athens and the support that the farmers’ struggle had from the whole of society. “The fact that we managed to have the society with us and to go out in a match is essentially the big profit and the legacy we leave to the next generations for how the matches are given” he emphasized.
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