The countryside threatens to take the tractors to the streets against the Sánchez agreements: “They cause territorial inequality”

2023-11-16 01:59:42

Madrid

Updated Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 00:59

The agrarian organization Asaja contemplates a massive “tractorada” against the pact with Puigdemont

Manifestation of the rural world in Madrid. Javi Martínez

The field threatens to return to asphalt. The agricultural sector is against the investiture agreements of Pedro Sánchez and does not rule out carrying out a massive tractor unit to express their rejection of pacts that, according to them, are going to cause “strong territorial imbalances.” The warning to the Government is not minor, especially coming from an area that makes so much noise when it goes out into the streets and represents such a broad social group and such a relevant section of the Spanish economy.

The notice was issued by the president of the Asaja agricultural association, Pedro Barato, last Monday behind closed doors at the CEOE. As EL MUNDO has learned, during his intervention in the extraordinary Executive Committee that Antonio Garamendi called urgently to address the agreements reached within the framework of the investiture, Barato explained the sector’s discomfort with the “territorial imbalances” that are going to occur as a consequence of the agreed measures and warned that, if they are not corrected, the field will go out into the street.

In fact, based on the Executive Committee held at the Madrid headquarters of the CEOE this Monday, and the harsh statement that came out of the business conclave, Asaja has announced his participation in the great civil society protest which will take place this Saturday, November 18, at 12 in the morning in the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. The agrarian businessmen and the rural world will thus join the hundred associations that will proclaim “Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination” in a demonstration called by the Spain Civic Forum, which is expected to be attended by representatives of both the Popular Party like Vox, including Alberto Nez Feijo and Santiago Abascal.

“At Asaja we are committed to a united and supportive Spain that enhances the principles and values ​​that guarantee the legal security of the Spanish State and that promotes democratic values, dialogue and understanding between autonomous communities,” the association announces. “We fully agree with the organizers that it is necessary to raise our voice against the concessions of Pedro Sanchez to the independentistas in exchange for their support for the investiture and we believe in the potential of civil society to defend the democratic values ​​of freedom, unity and equality,” they add.

Asaja is encouraging farmers and ranchers throughout Spain to participate in the demonstration to “strengthen the voice of the agricultural sector” and ensure that their concerns “are considered.” “We are against our sector being segregated and putting unity and territorial and financial solidarity at risk,” they say. And they appeal to their “responsibility as citizens, as businessmen and as maintainers and defenders of the rural environment” to ensure that it is their “obligation to defend institutional stability, legal security, equality among citizens and the best possible framework of coexistence for all.” “.

According to sources from the Executive Committee of the CEOE, Barato stated during his speech that his sector is going to “Go out into the streets in 52 points in Spain”. A tractor movement, in line with those that have been taking place throughout the last term of Pedro Sánchez, but which on this occasion would aspire to be massive. “You already know what it means for us to go out”noted the president of Asaja, always according to the sources consulted, present at the extraordinary meeting.

Barato supported the forceful statement of the national employers’ association against the “serious damage that these agreements can cause to the separation of powers and legal security”, the breakdown of the principle of equality between Spaniards, the creation of a business climate that reduces growth. economic growth and job creation and “the distortion of market unity.” But not only that, but he went a step further by referring to the general unrest in the sector due to the increase in costs, tax increases and territorial imbalances drawn by the Sánchez pacts, and advanced a possible drive in the face of the “social unrest” that these agreements with the independentists are causing.