Farmers: This is how the transition to Athens will take place - The tractors, the "excursionists" and the police plan
In the last few hours, farmers, breeders and beekeepers are organizing every detail for their smooth entry into the capital in view of the huge rally, having on their side labor unions, students and mass organizations of Attica.
In most areas, the coordinating bodies of the rural associations have met and decided on the means of transport they will use for their descent to Athens.
According to information from MEGA, the farmers will start on Monday from the 2 central blocks, Karditsa (E65) and Platykambos. On Tuesday morning, the blockades together with the farmers of the whole country will start heading for Athens, where a rally at the Syntagma has been set for 18:30. Earlier, at 17:30, there will be a rally in Omonia.
The pre-gatherings are scheduled for the afternoon as follows:
Omonia: Federations and unions of workers in the Food - Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Press - Paper and Textile industries, Unions of Workers in the Energy, Water and Chemical Industry, Federation of Craft Unions of Attica, Unions and Associations of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants, mass organizations of the municipalities of Attica.
Santaroza Square (opposite REX): Unions of workers in Telecommunications, Couriers, Finance, Federation and unions of Accountants - Auditors, Union of Salaried Lawyers, workers in the media, Association of Commercial Employees of Athens, Union of Private Employees of Athens, Union of Artists, Union of Cleaners - Cleaners.
Propylaia: Federations and Unions of public sector workers, Student Associations. Employees in the private sector of Health and Education. Associations of Training Students
Constitution: Lavrio Labor Center, Piraeus Labor Center, Builders' Federation and Union, Construction Unions, Food - Tourism - Hotel Employees Union, Metal and Shipbuilding Industry Union, Shipping Unions, Dockers Unions and Urban Transport Workers Unions, mass organizations of Southern and Eastern Suburbs, Federations and Unions of Pensioners, Federation of Women of Greece.
Meetings upon meetings at EL.AS (police)
In the official meeting that took place on Sunday morning under the leadership of EL.AS, the operational plan was discussed, i.e. the way the authorities will manage the descent of farmers in Athens with tractors and buses. The aim is, as police sources say, for the rally to take place smoothly and not to disrupt, as much as possible, the economic and social life in the capital. Care will also be taken for a specific space to park the vehicles that will come to Athens.
The thermometer is rising in the government
In Maximos, the thermometer has gone up, while official meetings are ongoing at the Police headquarters for the measures to be taken on Tuesday (20/02). According to police sources, uncontrolled movement of tractors will not be allowed in the capital, while there will also be a police escort on the farmers' vehicles, both on the route from the blocks to the capital, and vice versa.
Voridis: We satisfied most requests
The political leadership, for its part, declares itself ready to continue the dialogue, whenever the farmers want it. On the occasion of the cutting of the New Year's pie of the local organization of the New Democracy, the Minister of State Makis Voridis from the akritic Florina, referred to the agricultural mobilizations, saying: "Most of the demands of the farmers have been satisfied. We would like to satisfy the whole but there is not the fiscal space to do so.
The vast majority of farmers know that this government is doing everything it can – and has proven – to stand by the farmers and keep them producing,” improving, among other things, their income, he emphasized. We have said what we had to say as a government, but beyond that, of course every branch and every class has the right, within the framework of legality, to express and formulate their demands".
3-hour blockade of Egnatia
In the meantime, the farmers on the Egnatia road, in Halkidiki and Imathia, proceeded to new blockades. Specifically, at 6:00 pm on Sunday, olive producers of Halkidiki blocked Egnatia road from both sides, at the junction of Moudania, while in Imathia, Egnatia was blocked shortly before 7 pm, with a block of farmers at the Niselio junction .
The farmers staged a pedestrian protest, while traffic on Egnatia street in both areas were restored after 8 pm.
