Athens, Jan 31 (EFE) .- The Greek farmers today intensified roadblocks and highways that remain for days against the fiscal reform and the pension system posed by the government.
Hundreds of tractors and agricultural vehicles closed the Tempi Valley, a strategic point in Greece, as it is the main route that leads northeast to the mountains and the coast.
announced that the blockade will last six hours and, after a meeting, decided to increase the protests in the coming days blocking roads during certain times.
The assembly of Representatives will reconvene tomorrow to decide if the duration of the blockade of Tempi up to 12 hours is increased if new points are closed.
The roadblocks affecting much of the road network in Greece, from the northern regions in the Peloponnese peninsula and parts of the capital region of Attica, which yesterday closed one of the entrances to Athens airport, which was the first action near the capital since demonstrations began thirteen days ago .
The Directorate General of Police reported alternative routes to avoid closed, causing traffic jams.
Speaking to the media, a representative of the farmers said that they will not meet with the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, on Thursday, a possibility that had shuffled after the offer of the prime minister to talk.
Instead, they called for the creation in Parliament a committee formed by the different parties and where they are also represented, which is responsible for examining their petitions against tax increases and contributions and downs of planned pension reform proposal to creditors.
Otherwise, they warned that they will continue their protest actions and threatened to bring the tractor to the center of Athens.
In addition to the elimination of the subsidy on diesel and the gradual rise in income tax from 13% to 26% (with no minimum exempt) and approved in the autumn, farmers face a progressive increase in social contributions of 7% to almost 27%.
groups such as lawyers, engineers and other self-employed workers also planned strikes and protests that will culminate next Thursday in the general strike called by the trade union confederations in the public and private sector
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