Farmers are on the edge

[Intime News]

Autumn has traditionally been a clip for farmers’ protests and, this year, respective issues are fueling their restiveness.

Chief of them is the hold successful the disbursement of subsidies, arsenic the authorities is being other cautious pursuing the workplace subsidies scandal; besides inflation, arsenic it is with astir everyone else, and escalating accumulation costs.

The authorities has crushed to worry, since farmers person been a constituency favorable to conservatives. Exit polls astatine the 2023 predetermination showed 48% of farmers voting for New Democracy versus lone 10% for then main rival SYRIZA.

Current sentiment polls amusement the ruling enactment struggling to scope 35% of the husbandman vote.