Protests The agrarian revolt starts in Spain: "We are not the gardeners of Europe"
Protests Minister Planas tries to calm Spanish farmers but does not stop next week's mobilizations
The tractors took to the roads today to protest the
crisis in the sector and the agricultural policies
of the European Union, demonstrations that will continue throughout the day and even tomorrow in some areas.
These mobilizations are part of the calendar of protests planned throughout Spain, which the main agricultural organizations decided to maintain last Friday, after the meeting they held with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas.
These demonstrations, called by social networks and without authorization from the Government delegations, do not correspond to those called by the main agricultural organizations (AVA-Asaja, Asaja Alicante, La Unió, CCPV-COAG and UPA-PV) that announced a calendar of protests for the next few days.
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10.07
Valladolid: very slow traffic
The Valladolid capital woke up this Tuesday, February 6, with concentrations of tractors at the
entrances to the San Cristóbal and Mercaolid industrial estates
"making entry difficult" to them, according to data provided by Civil Protection and collected by Europa Press.
National Police and Municipal Police had predicted for the first hours of the day this Tuesday
"very slow traffic"
due to the presence of tractors at the entrances to industrial estates, at any point on VA-20, in Mercaolid and at the entrances to the city by the N-122, N-601, A-610 and VA-140 and has recommended using the VA-30 and A-62.
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10.06
Navarra: generalized mobilization
The
mobilization is widespread,
with a special impact on
strategic points of the PA30
(Ronda de Pamplona), reports the Foral Police, which indicates that there is a concentration of heavy vehicles and specific cuts at roundabouts in Talluntxe, Berriozar, Itaroa, Olaz and Artica.
Likewise, it points out that incidents have been recorded in
access to towns such as Tafalla, Lumbier
or
Estella-Lizarra.
The tractor units have been
called by individual farmers
through a
WhatsApp group.
UAGN, EHNE and UCAN do not participate in these mobilizations, entities that are in contact to organize a calendar of medium-term mobilizations, aimed at holding the European elections on June 9, the agricultural unions have told Efe.
At the national level, ASAJA, COAG and UPA have announced mobilizations, which will take place first in the provinces, and then one
in Madrid towards the month of May.
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10.04
La Rioja: The Government delegation without knowledge of the protest
The tractor movement in La Rioja occurs
without the authorization of the Government Delegation
in La Roja, which already said this Monday that, given the announcement of a mobilization of farmers for this Tuesday, no communication had been received in this regard, while it had The request by different organizations has been formalized for February 13, reports Efe.
He also pointed out that traffic cuts are not authorized and that tractors, to access urban centers, must comply with current traffic regulations and the instructions given to them by the State security forces and bodies and local police.
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09.59
La Rioja: access to Logroño collapsed
The tractors took to the Rioja roads this Tuesday and have
blocked traffic in the main accesses to Logroño
since early in the morning and some are heading towards Mercarioja, according to Efe.
There are also tractors in the areas of the Riojan municipalities of
Haro, Briones, Calahorra and Alfaro and
road closures
are planned , such as the N-232
, and they have not been ruled out on the Basque-Aragonese highway AP-68.
Some
urban buses in Logroño have difficulties
traveling on their usual routes.
The Civil Guard and the different Local Police are in the affected areas and are trying to regulate traffic.
This tractor unit is produced
without the authorization of the Government Delegation
in La Rioja.
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09.58
Tarragona: fifty tractors in slow motion
In
Montblanc
(Tarragona) the farmers plan to cut the AP-2 and the N-240 starting at 9:00 am and also in this province, in Mora d'Ebre, more than fifty tractors will make slow marches along the C-12 and the N-420.
Around noon, the farmers of the Ebro Lands have also been called to gather in L'Aldea (Tarragona)
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09.57
Gerona: the objective is to circulate through the city center
In
Gerona,
the farmers have gathered since 8:00 in the morning in the parking lot of the Fontajau pavilion, from where they plan to circulate through the city center and then head to the AP-7 motorway and the National II.
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09.56
Catalonia: block some of the main arteries of the community
Various agricultural organizations have called for concentrations of farmers in points such as the city of
Girona, Vic and Sant Fruitós del Bages, in central Catalonia, in Fondarella
(
Lleida
) or
Mora d'Ebre, Vila-rodona and Montblanc, in Tarragona
, from where They plan to cut and
block some of the main arteries
of the community.
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09.54
Andalusia: traffic at red level
Farmer protests
organized through social networks have caused traffic jams on the
A-4 highway near Écija (Seville)
and on the
A-92
in various parts of the
province of Granada
, as well as in
Malaga
, since early this Tuesday.
capital,
where the
accesses
from San Andrés and Alameda de Colón to the Port of Málaga have been
blocked.
According to the website of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), consulted by Europa Press, traffic
is at red level
due to a tractor unit between kilometers 452 to 458 near
Écija
(Seville), at kilometer 203 in the A-92 in
Venta Nueva
(Granada) and on the A-92G near
Santa Fe
and
Moraleda de Zafayona
, also in the province of
Granada.
In the province of Malaga, demonstrators with tractors positioned themselves in the vicinity of the
port of Malaga during the early hours of the morning and blocked
the access to the port area with tires, some of which they set on fire.
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09.48
Valencian Community: retention of between 1.5 and 2 kilometers on the A-3
On the A-3, the tractor unit has completely cut off the road but later a lane has been opened for traffic and at around 8:00 a.m. there is a
delay of between 1.5 and 2 kilometers
, according to the General Directorate of Traffic. to Eph.
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09.37
Valencia: the northern access ring and the CV-30 are closed
A demonstration of farmers with tractors has
blocked the northern access route to Valencia and the CV-30
since the early hours of this Tuesday morning, as well as the
CV-50 in L'Alcúdia and the A-3 near Cheste
, although in the latter a lane has already been opened, reports Efe.
In the accesses to the Valencian capital, the northern ring road has been cut off and the CV-30 at its entrance to the city has had to be cut off so that
no more vehicles can access and those that have been stranded can be removed.
The CV-50 has also been closed to traffic in both directions near L'Alcúdia due to a demonstration by farmers on tractors, according to the DGT.
These cuts have caused the
collapse of the transversal access roads to the city,
according to the Management Center on social networks.
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09.32
Community of Madrid: M-600 closed in Sevilla la Nueva
Several dozen tractors cut off the Madrid highway M-600 in Sevilla la Nueva
early this morning
in
the direction of the M-501 highway
, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) reported, Efe reports.
It is the only Madrid road closed at 9:00 a.m., according to the source, although he has specified that in the province of Toledo from the first hour the farmers have closed the A-4 roads in Madridejos, towards Madrid, the A-42 in Illescas, and the A-5 in Casarrubio del Monte.
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09.30
Aragón: the A-2 highway blocked
Hundreds of tractors keep
the A-2 highway blocked
as it passes through the Zaragoza town of
La Almunia de Doña Godina
and the
accesses to Mercazaragoza
, on the Cogullada highway, without significant incidents having been recorded so far, reports Efe.
The tractor drivers, who take over the road axis, with entrances and exits from service areas, occupy kilometers of highway, according to sources from the Civil Guard.
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