Tractors again in the central square of Rome.
The demonstration is organized by the Maf (Federated Agricultural Movements) in Piazza Bocca della Verità starting at 10am. A procession of five tractors, escorted by the police, left from the garrison in Via Nomentana for the area in the heart of the capital to the sit-in in which around a thousand participants are expected.
Also in the square were the farmers of Riscattoagricoltura
who decided to stay at the collection point in via Nomentana after the Ministry of Agriculture made a discussion table official.
"At the moment there are around 200 tractors at the garrison - he added - a reinforcement will arrive on Saturday night. The idea is to hold another demonstration next week, perhaps on Tuesday".
Fais explains that they did not leave the collection point on Nomentana "because the promise of a discussion table is not enough.
We ask for a fair price for our products".
The tractors and vehicles coming from Caserta and southern Lazio, stationed in Castel di Leva, on the extreme outskirts of Rome, returned to their places of origin during the night, meeting in Casal di Principe, "to share the proposals to be bring to the discussion table and to decide how, in Campania and elsewhere, the movement extends and strengthens", announced the honorary president of Altragricoltura, Gianni Fabbris.
On Sunday at 10am the Ercolina cow, which has already been to Sanremo, will be in the Vatican where it will receive the Pope's blessing, together with a delegation from the tractor protest
.
One of the organizers of the protest announced it from the stage of the garrison at the Bocca della Verità in Rome.
"The Holy Father's blessing of the Ercolina cow is a strong recognition of our struggle. In these hours we are working to obtain permission to bring a tractor to St. Peter's Square tomorrow."
One of the organizers of the protest announced it from the tractor garrison at the Bocca della Verità in Rome.
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