As of: January 28, 2024, 7:34 a.m
By: Klaus-Maria Mehr
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A recently founded demo alliance wants to bring 30,000 to 50,000 traffic light opponents to Bavaria in Munich from 12 p.m.
However, they shouldn't come with the tractor.
The “Hand in Hand for our Country” alliance around a crane contractor from Bad Aibling is calling for a demonstration on Sunday (January 28th) in Munich.
All “farmers, medium-sized businesses, pensioners, craftsmen, mothers” are called upon to demonstrate together against the traffic lights.
The most important innovation
: The demonstrators are not allowed to arrive with trucks, excavators or tractors.
You have to come by chartered bus or public transport.
First report, Sunday, January 28th, 7:33 a.m.:
A large demonstration against the traffic lights is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. on Theresienwiese.
We are monitoring the situation live on Sunday.
Below are the most important questions and answers.
Traffic light opponents gather under the Bavaria.
Here is a scene from the truck demo on Friday, January 12th.
© Wolfgang Maria Weber/Imago
How many participants are planned?
A good two weeks ago, around 2,000 trucks rolled up to the historic Theresienwiese to demonstrate against the traffic lights, albeit with a clear distance from the farmers' "nonsense".
A new alliance led by Markus Huber, a 37-year-old crane contractor from Bad Aibling, wants to surpass this.
30,000 to 50,000 participants
are registered with the KVR.
However, the police assume there will be significantly fewer participants.
Are there traffic jams in Munich again?
Traffic chaos, such as during the truck demo, is less likely.
The participants are explicitly asked to leave their tractors, trucks and other commercial vehicles at home and to travel with self-organized
buses or public transport
from all over Bavaria.
Anyone planning the latter should be reminded: The S-Bahn hardly or not at all runs because the GDL strike, despite the fact that it has now ended prematurely, will last the whole Sunday.
New arrivals could cost organizers participants
It remains to be seen whether the travel solution will be so well received.
The ability to comfortably drive to the demonstration in your own car was somewhat the unique selling point of these anti-traffic light events.
However, the organizers' ulterior motive is to significantly expand the circle of participants.
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Who comes?
Not only farmers and haulage companies are explicitly invited, but also “the tax-paying middle class of society and pensioners”, or as organizer Huber says elsewhere: all “farmers, medium-sized businesses, pensioners, craftsmen, mothers.” The demo has a bit of an effect. Call like a counter-test to the brilliant democracy demo with around 200,000 participants last weekend in Munich.
Even if the organizers renounce all right-wing and left-wing influences.
Oh well: Hubert Aiwanger is of course also there.
What is it about?
Above all, the initiators apparently want to express their fundamental dissatisfaction with the traffic light policy - and show how many people in Bavaria feel the same way.
Their points of criticism include the abolition of agricultural diesel subsidies, toll increases in transport, CO₂ taxes and the increase in VAT in the catering industry that has already been implemented.
But topics such as affordable housing, combating poverty in old age and reducing bureaucracy should also be discussed.