DAVID VIGARIO

Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-13:20

"Guests won't make it to your party"

. The messages have multiplied on the channels of farmers and ranchers in the last few hours, who plan to bring their tractors to the doors of the Valladolid Fair, where this Saturday afternoon the 38th edition of the

Goya Awards

will be held . Faced with the threat of a possible boycott, the Government Delegation of Castilla y León has announced an "unprecedented" police deployment with the intention that the event "be held normally." More than 1,300 agents (almost 300 of them municipal agents and the rest Civil Guard and National Police) will be on the streets of Valladolid, also taking into account that hours before the gala another concentration is being held, that of UGT and CCOO against the government of the community.

The protest drive planned for Saturday, without official communication yet, has re-emerged in the same way - through WhatsApp groups - as has been happening these days by the farmers and ranchers who have joined this "independent" movement and apart from agrarian organizations, which have their own calendar of demonstrations. The main call of these messages urges to "collapse" Valladolid in order for the protests to gain media presence and, if possible, produce a boycott: "This year the Goya festival will be held in the street" and "the guests will not arrive to his party," say the proclamations.

These channels also highlight that "on Tuesday there were traffic jams in Valladolid and many people arrived late for work. On Saturday Valladolid will collapse and the ones who will not arrive are you to your party. This year the Goya Gala will be remembered for a long time "If we all unite... Let them tremble. It's enough to drown us!", although local leaders of the independent platform of protesters '6F' assure that they are not behind this call.

As a prior notice, the Government Delegation of this community has reported that the National Police and Civil Guard will report conduct contrary to the regulations "to protect the freedom and safety of all citizens and guests at the Goya gala." to which the President of the Government,

Pedro Sánchez

, and four other ministers

could attend, still unconfirmed .

"The National Police and Civil Guard will report, in their respective areas of competence, conduct contrary to the regulations to protect the freedom and safety of all citizens and guests at the Goya," the Government Delegation stressed in a statement. . Last Tuesday, the first day of the farmers' demonstrations, hundreds of tractors surrounded the regional Parliament and hundreds of protesters gathered at its doors after collapsing several arteries in the city throughout the day.

The vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León,

Juan García-Gallardo (

Vox), has assured that he will be present at the gala, along with the deputy mayor of Valladolid,

Irene Carvajal,

despite the fact that the national leadership of Vox has urged to the officials of this party not to attend the Goya "in solidarity with the farmers." This Friday, Gallardo himself has demanded that the actors who participate tomorrow in the Goya Awards gala make "real demands" and talk about the problems of farmers and ranchers, who "are not gentlemen," according to Efe: "The gentlemen "They are the ones who want to make a living by producing cinematographic works that no one sees later at the expense of millions and millions of euros that Spanish taxpayers pay with great effort." In this sense, he has assured that, although Spain "is not for parties", his presence at the gala "is going to sting."

On the other hand, the mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero, -former advisor in this community of Agriculture and Livestock- has indicated that he understands the situation that the agricultural world is going through, although he has clarified: "Now, farmers and ranchers "They have to respect the normal coexistence of cities. There are other formulas through which to express their demands," he stated in an interview on Onda Cero. In this sense, he added that "we live in a democracy and democracy has channels and paths that allow listening, hearing, communicating and dialogue", to indicate that these demands must be redirected to dialogue "through their representatives or directly with them ".