The large demonstration scheduled for Friday in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome has been cancelled, but farmers and shepherds from the island will still leave for the capital : " We are Sardinian and determined to continue with the same determination ", says Roberto Congia , one of the spokespersons of the protest. About a hundred Sardinian farmers and shepherds are expected in Rome, there will be a symbolic protest with delegations from other regions.
CHAOS IN CAGLIARI
Therefore, if the first signs of a truce are visible at a national level , the tractor protest in Sardinia is spreading . The permanent garrison of farmers and breeders paralyzed Cagliari today, sending traffic at the entrance to the city into a tailspin . The very long queue of vehicles from the Sa Scafa bridge reaches up to Giorgino . Many trucks are waiting to enter the port, blocked by over sixty tractors . A resumption of actions also favored by the large influx of protesters who arrived from the rest of the island to leave for Rome.
And from tomorrow, Friday morning, it will double with the permanent garrison announced in Porto Torres, where around 50 tractors are expected from 6am : «We will understand how many there will be in total on the spot. We will try to block port activities, including landings and imports", explains Salvatore Muntinu, a breeder from Mores.
THE EVENT CANCELED
Thus Riscatto Agricolo announced the cancellation of the demonstration in Piazza San Giovanni: «It is believed not to proceed with the scheduled demonstration, but to only bring a delegation of 10 tractors to San Giovanni, as a symbol of the protest. All the demonstrators with their agricultural vehicles will remain to raise public awareness, remaining at the garrisons, all so as not to further undermine the great support received up to now from all Italian citizens , who have been supporting and inciting the resistance for many days of farmers, despite the many days of inconvenience that the demonstrations have brought to Italian streets", we read in a statement.
" We will have a procession with four tractors in the center of Rome, I don't rule out that we will also pass in front of the Colosseum ", added Maurizio Sanigagliesi of Riscatto Agricolo after a meeting in the prefecture. And, police headquarters and prefecture permitting, there is also the intention to organize a "procession on the ring road" with tractors.
SANREMO
On the Festival, however, Riscatto Agricolo raises the stakes. And he asks for the stage: «If we can't go up, we will concentrate all the tractors from Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria on Sanremo » .
Sardinia is also present in the delegation of farmers in Sanremo, represented by Fabio Pitzalis, from Guasila . The desire to bring the voice of the agricultural world to the stage of the Ariston, the most followed in Italy, clashes with a position taken by Rai.
«We have received and continue to receive hundreds of emails from farmers who want to take the stage. Rai will bring the problems and requests of the agricultural world to the attention of the general public through their press release . Now we need to understand who the representatives of these farmers are. The Prefecture will understand it, we for our part with Amadeus have indicated our willingness to read the press release that will arrive to us", said the Viale Mazzini company.
Pitzalis, headed to the city of flowers, had said: «We also want to represent the problems of our region, but from what transpires for the moment from our contacts on the spot, that of me and the tractors that are moving from Milan could be a journey useless. In fact, they don't seem willing to let us get on stage ."
(Unioneonline/L)