The Spanish field is full of contrasts. During the pandemic, she donated breasts and managed, together with the distribution, that consumers did not lack anything on the supermarket shelves. Agriculture, therefore, is in itself an essential sector that needs to be cared for and listened to. Their claims about unfair competition from products from other countries, for example, are presented as fair. If it is not protected, the Spain brand will be devoured by the outside world. It is enough to ask why American bananas are cheaper than bananas from the Canary Islands. It’s the same with the tomato. It seems understandable, therefore, that farmers are outraged and take to the roads to be heard.
It goes without saying that this is one of the sectors that governments have taken the most care of in recent years. Who has had their fuel subsidized over the course of an entire legislature? There is no need to mention the hardness of a job for which, on occasion, immigrants are used. You only have to take a detour through the white sea of ??greenhouses that floods Murcia and Almeria.
The social media debate is: Are the farmers right? Heroes or villains, that’s the point. Could we talk about a tractosphere? There has been everything. Support came from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Many profiles linked to the extreme right came out in support of the camp. From the leader of a group of “squatters” to the digital prescribers close to Vox. Sumar and Podemos also supported the agricultural professionals in their protests and qualified the claims as “legitimate”. curious
The PSOE had more problems explaining themselves. The central government does not hide its concern for the situation, while the general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE proclaimed “empathy, understanding and commitment” to farmers and ranchers. What is called swimming and putting away clothes.
There are those who have also tried to take advantage of this incipient protest politically. PP against Vox. Feijóo has left his suit and tie and rushed to the field, but here Abascal is one step ahead. “Since we have been in the institutions we have defended the primary sector, both in Spain and in Brussels”, they said.
The battle, in short, is being played on three planes: in Europe, where it has been going on for a few weeks, in the Spanish coalition government, and on the right. The tractosphere has ignited the fuse of discontent in Spain. The question that needs to be clarified is how far it will go.
