In the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius on Wednesday, January 24, a protest promotion of representatives of the agricultural sector will be held, the Lithuanian state media reports.
Already on Tuesday evening, the center of Vilnius was filled with the technique of farmers and foresters – tractors and timber trucks. Before the government building began the construction of the scene.
Farmers will try to attract the attention of the government to increase the excise tax on liquefied gas, cancel the excise excise fuel for farm trucks, restore perennial meadows, develop territories to protect, dairy crisis and other problems.
One of the organizers of the action, member of the agricultural council of Lithuania Dainus Arlauskas, said that about 1300 units of heavy equipment had already filled the main street of the capital and approaches to it. They try to place all the equipment in the city center.
“Gediminas Avenue is already almost filled, and the site (near the Sejm -) is also almost filled. According to our estimates, there are about 600 tractors, that is, half of what else will come. The rest will be redirected to other sites, the exact place for now I can’t call it, ”Arlauskas said on Tuesday afternoon.
Tractors lined up in two rows along Gediminas Avenue from Sejm to Cathedral – they have posters with slogans, a large coffin was installed on one tractor, they were somewhat hanged by photographs on which the head of the Minister of Agriculture Kasytutis Navitskas was assigned to the body of the donkey. >
The owner of the crop farm in the Rokishki district, Dainus Mikalayunas, told BNS that the arrivals of the protest participants spent a lot of funds – only fuel costs a lot of money to drive a long distance on the tractor. However, according to him, the problems are very serious, and farmers intend to go to spending.
On Wednesday and Thursday, a protest of farmers and their supporters will take place before the government building from 11 to 16 hours. According to various estimates, from two to five thousand participants are expected.
The Minister of Agriculture Navitskas and the Minister of Environment Simonas Gentwilas promised to meet with protesters on Wednesday.