On Friday morning at 11 a.m. a pan-Hellenic meeting of farmers is expected to take place in Sindo, Thessaloniki where they will decide on the individuals from which the committee that will be established will be composed and will have a meeting with the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

At the same time, the farmers continue their mobilization with the closure of national and provincial roads from noon, while demonstrations are expected this afternoon as well. Specifically, at 18:00 and for two hours, the farmers in Malgara are expected to take to the streets. At 18:30 the farmers have planned mobilizations in Aigio while the farmers in Platykambo of Larissa are also expected to take to the streets.

Symbolic blockades from noon

Earlier todayfarmers, breeders and beekeepers they proceeded to symbolic blockades of half an hoursetting up roadblocks at various key points in Central Macedonia.

Particularly, in a symbolic blockade of half an hour, the agricultural blocks proceeded to the junctions of Dervenion the national road Thessaloniki – Kavala and Strymonikou on the Egnatia road Thessaloniki – Serres as well as in other places in the prefectures of Imathia, Pella and Pieria, such as, among others, the junction of Niseli on the Egnatia road Thessaloniki-Veroia, Giannitsa and Chalkidona.

The participants in the agricultural blocks of Malgarion the Athens-Thessaloniki national road they will proceed with a two-hour blockade in the afternoon from six o’clock on one stream to Thessalonikiwhile at the Moudania intersection, a corresponding mobilization will take place, and exactly at the same time, on the Thessaloniki-Moudania National Road in both directions.

The situation is similar with the agricultural block erected at the Galatista junction on the national road Thessaloniki – Polygyros, where the farmers and breeders leave open the possibility of carrying out a three-hour blockade today from 19.00, as they did yesterday. Final decisions will be made by late afternoon.

Blockades at junctions on national roadsbut also of Egnatia street, farmers in Western Macedonia are also advancing.

It is indicated that the closure of the road has already been announced from 3.30 to 4.30 in Grevena at the intersection of Myrsini and the Kozani – Florina provincial road at the Filota intersection, from 4 to 5. As it became known, tomorrow the farmers intend to close the Florina – North Macedonia border for four hours, with traffic stopping mainly for passing trucks. Final decisions are expected within the day.

It is reminded that the farmers, at the meeting they had in Nice, Larissa, decided to escalate their mobilizations and the organization of an All-Party Meeting in Athens, within the next week with a tractor.

They simultaneously interpreted that if the prime minister satisfies their demands until todaythen they will also stop their mobilizations.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the representatives of the agricultural blocs is planned for next Saturday at 7.30 pm of Central and Western Macedonia, in order to take decisions on the symbolic blockade of Greece’s borders with North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Albania.

“Everything is open and as long as the Greek prime minister does not respond to what we rightly ask, in order to continue to exist in the primary sectorthen it is possible to take a tougher stance” notes the farmer of Paionia, Thomas Karipidis.