Polish farmers, members of the Orka agricultural producer group, have introduced a starvation strike within the constructing of the Sejm (the decrease home of the parliament). That is reported by the Polish information platform Interia.
“We’re beginning a starvation strike and we is not going to cease it till Prime Minister Donald Tusk meets with us,” the information platform quoted Mariusz Borowiak, the chief of the starvation strike organizers, as saying.
Based on him, the individuals of the starvation strike, who got here to Warsaw to satisfy with the Prime Minister of Poland, will solely drink water.
The chief of the starvation strike organizers additionally criticized Poland’s deputy agriculture minister, Michal Kolodzeiczak, who was tasked with negotiating with the protesters, saying he didn’t symbolize farmers’ pursuits properly.
On Could 13, Kolodzejczak introduced on the Polsat TV channel that “farmers’ protests have largely ended, and the protests that also happen once in a while are organized by political orders.”
Polish farmers began mass protests on February 9. Agricultural producers are demanding to restrict or utterly ban the import of low cost agricultural merchandise from Ukraine and to strengthen assist for nationwide livestock breeding. In addition they oppose the European Union’s Inexperienced Deal technique, which requires zero carbon emissions by 2050.
On Could 7, a mass protest by farmers occurred in Katowice throughout the sixteenth European Financial Discussion board within the metropolis, attended by the top of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Prime Minister of Poland.
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