The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has called for responsibility in relation to the road transport strike and to the “group of people” who “are boycotting and carrying out violent actions”, in addition to “disturb” the distribution in Spain of many goods, basically from the agri-food sector.
Planas has recalled that the pickets that prevent small ranchers deliver their milk, that the fruits and vegetables reach the markets or that the boats can go out to fish, they carry out “an illegal and immoral action” against the work carried out by these professionals.
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Thus, he has asked for “responsibility” in the acts and their consequences, while at the same time sending a message of “security and tranquility” because the Government of Spain and the 23,600 members of the State Security Forces and Bodies that are mobilized in this conflict, “They are going to do everything in their power to make it impossible for this group to block and disrupt the normal functioning of our society.”
“The provision of food and basic services is not a trivial issue; it is a constitutional issue in relation to free movement, and in this country we can all express our points of view and our demands in a peaceful way, but we cannot use actions and violence against anyone, because it is society as a whole that loses”, said the minister this Friday in Cáceres after participating in the inauguration of the IV Participatory Forum of the primary sector on the Draft Law for the Prevention of Food Losses and Waste.
Planas, who has been accompanied by the president of the Junta de Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, and the Government delegate in Extremadura, Yolanda García Seco, has shown his “concern” about this conflict, which will be acted upon with “all the forcefulness that is necessary”he stressed.
Regarding the Government’s conversations with the organizers of the protests, he recalled that all issues related to the transport sector are channeled through the National Committee for Road Transport, where they have been carried out “very substantive negotiations” last December which resulted in a series of agreements that were validated with the Decree Law that was approved yesterday in this regard.
However, the minister stressed that “those who carry out these acts of boycott are not integrated into the National Committee for Highway Transport” and “the sector does not recognize them”. “I find it absolutely incredible and unbearable and I call for everyone’s responsibility so that these acts do not occur and that a step back be taken because everything can be talked about, but obviously, nothing under violence or coercion”, he concluded. .
Shouts of resignation to Minister Sánchez
A hundred carriers have protested this Friday at the arrival of the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, at an event in Valladolid, in which they have asked for her resignation for not attending to the industry problems.
screaming from “resign minister, buy a truck”, the concentrates have emphasized that “they are carriers, not terrorists” and have exclaimed that they do not belong to any organization of the extreme right.
One of the concentrates, Óscar Infante, has asked the Government not to “manipulate” and accused him of being on the extreme right, because they “are simply workers and do not belong to any political organization.”
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