Farmers and representatives of the main agrarian organizations show their anger at Miteco’s decision and describe the mobilization carried out in Madrid as a “resounding success”
“There is no other alternative than a rectification by the Ministry: without the water from the Tajo-Segura Transfer, the Region of Murcia dies.” With such blunt and direct expressions, numerous farmers and representatives of the main agrarian organizations showed in Madrid this Wednesday their enormous anger at the decision by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge to cut the Tagus-Segura. No one from the Community’s agri-food sector was missing at the gates of the Miteco building, and no one missed the opportunity to highlight the anger of biblical dimensions that exists among farm workers.
The most energetic and harshly critical of Minister Teresa Ribera, the main target of criticism this Wednesday morning, was Lucas Jiménez, president of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct. «We come to Madrid to demand peace, specifically that they leave us in peace. Let Ribera take his political claws out of the water issue and end once and for all the policies of a radical and despotic minister,” said the highest representative of the Segura irrigators.
Jiménez made it clear on the microphones of LA VERDAD and numerous national media that gathered at the protest that “the agriculture that takes place in the Region of Murcia is the most respectful with the environment, the most sustainable and the one that feeds all of Spain and Europe». As he assured days before the demonstration called in Madrid, the president of Scrats estimated at 15,000 the jobs that would be lost in the event that the Miteco decision to cut the Tagus-Segura is applied due to the increase in ecological flows. of the Tagus.
“We are the first to be interested in ensuring that this river is well as users of it [Tajo]. We want to continue living and working in peace in the Region. The minister said that this is an emotional issue for us, and of course it is. A society that is going to see its environment, its way of life and its future work in danger due to a political decision, it is normal for it to have emotions. Otherwise we would be automatons. And in Levante we are not automatons, we are people with courage, courage and who want to work, “said Jiménez.
“If they take away our water, we are lost”
With enormous resignation, numerous farmers showed up who traveled half the country so as not to miss the protest. This is the case of Francisco Albadalejo, who left the Campo de Cartagena to sign up for the appointment in Madrid. Like everyone, his anger and his sadness at the measure adopted by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, which he will never understand. «What they are doing to us does not enter my head, if they take away the water from the Transfer, we are lost. We need that water that they want to steal from us, without it the Region of Murcia will die,” said the farmer.
Another of the highest representatives of a sector that feels “mistreated”, as stated on some of the banners that traveled from the Community to Madrid is José Miguel Marín, president of COAG. The leader of the Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers of the Region of Murcia described the protest as a “resounding success” due to the “massive response of the people a few days after the holidays.” José Miguel Marín indicated that the image shown in the capital of Spain shows “how the sector and citizens feel, because this is a problem that affects all civil society and reveals the deep concern that exists in the Region and throughout the I raised. All we ask is that common sense prevail,” he added.
«Having an agriculture in the Levant as Spain has and a region that works with water like this would be a source of pride in any country in the world, but this is not the case. It is very sad that they want to demonize this brilliant agriculture,” Marín pointed out at the doors of a Ministry that ended the demonstration with several branches leaning against the main façade as a symbol of protest. «We ask the Government to rectify, not to approve the Tagus Basin Plan as it is planned to do so; they still have time to do it », he concluded.
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