The farmers who kept the Regional Assembly blocked have abandoned the protest after meeting with the Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, and getting an interview with the sector’s counselor, Sara Rubira, next Monday to present their demands.
This was explained by the spokesperson for the protesters, Javier Soto, who along with three other colleagues met for around an hour with López Miras, to whom they transmitted their demands so that he could transfer them to the Ministry of Agriculture and the European Union. , of which the parliamentary groups have also participated.
“We left the meeting happy, despite the tension. We feel that our work is bearing fruit,” said the farmers’ spokesperson, who added that he hopes that in the meeting with the Minister of Agriculture of Murcia “progress will be made in issues such as phytosanitary or animal welfare regulations”. However, Javier Soto has said that the protests will continue because the problem is not only in the Region of Murcia, it is also in Spain and throughout Europe.
Farmers from Campo de Cartagena cut off traffic this Wednesday at the Regional Assembly and blocked the exits to prevent the regional president, Fernando López Miras, from leaving the building, whose official car was shaken by the protesters and had to return to the building. garage.
There were several dozen vehicles, both tractors and trucks and trailers, some loaded with lemons and other fruit and vegetable products, which parked in both lanes of the avenue, preventing the circulation of vehicles.
The farmers also managed to reach the rear area of ??Parliament, where the other exit is located, to prevent the deputies from leaving the Chamber.
The Murcian president, who had appeared in the afternoon session to answer a package of questions about support measures for the agricultural sector and protection and recovery of the Mar Menor, had to return inside the building when a group of protesters shook the tourism in which he was preparing to leave Cartagena.
The vice president of the Community, José Ángel Antelo, the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP, Joaquín Segado, and the deputy and head of agriculture for the popular Murcians, Jesús Cano, among others, came out to the door of the Assembly to speak with the farmers.
It so happens that, before the start of the parliamentary session, ambulance technicians were also gathering at the doors of the Assembly demanding a fair collective agreement, so both protests have shared the same space.
Fernando López Miras himself met this afternoon with representatives of a group of farmers while the protest was underway.
Parliamentary sources confirmed that the farmers were not preventing the deputies from leaving the building, since, although they cannot leave the chamber in their cars, they can do so on foot, but both exits lead to the street, where the protesters are.
Police officers have also been deployed outside the Assembly, without any incidents having occurred so far. No deputy, nor the president of the Chamber, Visitación Martínez, have left Parliament.