The operation to block the A9 motorway at the Boulou toll barrier, started yesterday by farmers from the Rural Coordination, has now ended. These members of the sections of the Rural Coordination of Pyrénées-Orientales, Hérault and Aude took place on Tuesday to demand “dignified agriculture” et “show what would happen if there were no more farmers”. Although initially planning to stay there as long as possible, the hundred demonstrators present finally broke camp late morning this Wednesday, November 20 and left with the tractors used to form their filter dam.
Tractors expected in the center of Perpignan
The procession of demonstrators took the D900 around 2 p.m. towards Perpignan. A meeting of a delegation of farmers will be received at 3:30 p.m. in the prefecture from the Pyrénées-Orientales to Perpignan. A major CRS device is deployed in the city center of Perpignan.
Traffic jams in Vallespir
Traffic on the A9, a busy route between Spain and France, should resume normally at the start of the afternoonafter cleaning the camp where the farmers left tires and emptied a skip. The demonstrators were unable to count on a sufficiently large contingent and wanted to send a sign of appeasement. On the other side of the border, the impact of the blockage was counted in the hundreds of heavy goods vehicles at a standstill.. Several trucks also used the departmental roads via Cerbère and Vallespir causing traffic jams and sometimes damage to the road.
This new episode of agricultural demonstrations comes a few weeks before professional elections, where the second union in the sector intends to break the hegemony of the majority alliance FNSEA-Young Farmers (JA).
At the head of three chambers of agriculture (Lot-et-Garonne, Vienne, Haute-Vienne), the CR intends to “take 15 to 20” from the FNSEA at the end of the professional elections in January, which will determine governance of these rooms and the subsidies paid to each.
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