According to Mr. Skylakakis, the farmers will have a 2-year complete suspension of payments, with the continuation of the electricity supply, and then a five-year regulation of electricity obligations – Farmers set up a blockade at the Filotas junction
Filed today, Monday in the Parliament amendment concerning farmers and by which those affected by the bad weather Daniel they will have 2 years full suspension of paymentswith continued power supply and at then a five-year settlement of obligations in the electricitya including the old obligations with zero interest, as announced today, Monday on SKAI 100.3 o Minister of Environment and Energy Theodoros Skylakakis.
He made it known that over 30% of farmers’ electricity obligations remain unpaid.
“We have approximately a little under 200,000 rural electricity supplies, so 30% of them are unpaid,” said the minister.
The farmers set up a roadblock at the Filotas junction
His hub Filota, on the borders of Florina-Eordaia, he chose again Eastern Eordaia Agricultural and Livestock Association and Southern Basin of Vegoritis to set up a block today, Monday at 14:00, lining up more than 50 tractors as well as other agricultural machinery.
In a related update it is stated that “problems are the ones that take us out on the road. The Farmers’ Struggle is a struggle for the survival of Society and concerns us all. We are escalating our fight like our colleagues throughout Greece”.
The Association asks the local community, the agricultural and livestock Associations, the Cooperatives and all kinds of Association bodies, to stand by their side by supporting their mobilization.
In the meantime, contacts also continue with Agricultural Associations of Kastoria, as with the pan-Hellenic bloc committee, in the prospect of adding forces from the surrounding areas.
Source: Skai
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