New escalation: Farmers in Malgara decide on a 48-hour blockade of national highways, service roads and customs checkpoints

Farmers unanimously decided during their nationwide gathering successful Malgara to proceed with a 48-hour blockade of roads, work roads and customs checkpoints connected Thursday and Friday. In effect, they accepted the connection enactment guardant by the Nikaia roadblock, which called for an escalation of the protests successful this manner.

According to their representative, Kostas Anestidis, nary roadblock backed down, with each participants insisting connected continuing and intensifying the mobilizations.

Speaking connected behalf of the Nikaia roadblock, Rizos Maroudas said that farmers are warring for their endurance and that the authorities indispensable supply answers. “We don’t privation to spell to the Maximos Mansion for coffee,” Maroudas told authorities broadcaster ERT. Farmers program to unopen down “strategic points” connected the Egnatia Odos, the Ionia Odos, the nationalist road astatine Tempi and Bralos, arsenic good arsenic routes successful the Peloponnese.

Meanwhile, Kostas Tzellas, typical of the Karditsa (E-65) roadblock, said that aft 35 days of protests, work present lies with the authorities to initiate sincere and meaningful dialogue. Otherwise, helium warned, farmers volition proceed with the blockades connected Thursday and Friday. He described the premier minister’s invitations for dialog arsenic simply token gestures.