Farmers are fed up with the silence of the Prime Minister and the government. On behalf of the signatories of the agreement in Jasionka, the president of the National Union of Farmers, Agricultural Clubs and Organizations submitted a letter to the Prime Minister calling for specific actions.
The president of the National Union of Farmers, Agricultural Clubs and Organizations, Władysław Serafin, shows the government a red card and calls for immediate action, to which the Minister of Agriculture, Czesław Siekierski, committed himself in Jasionka.
The signatories of the Jasionka agreements feel cheated
We agreed to participate in the dialogue process initiated by the Prime Minister, but as a result we were excluded from the arrangements and negotiation processes, without any justification. Your officers conducting these mock dialogue processes lied and misled both us and the Prime Minister, which resulted in the resumption of social protests in an intensified form – wrote the president of KZRiOR.
Due to the current situation, it calls on the government to take specific actions, i.e.;
- submitting explanations and documents confirming the execution and implementation of the recorded applications and demands of farmers and their unions (KZRKiOR and NSZZ RI Solidarność) as part of the social agreement between the government and representatives of farmers organized in Protest Committees, concluded on March 19, 2024 in Jasionka. The explanations are to concern the implementation of the provisions of the signed agreement, the date of which was set for April 1. These actions were to consist in making an immediate decision to stop the crisis in Polish agriculture, which was caused by the decline in prices of agricultural produce, as well as the excessive and uncontrolled inflow of agricultural products from Ukraine, which resulted in a collapse of the profitability of agricultural production in all areas of Polish agriculture. These clarifications are expected by Serafin by April 22, 2024.
KZRKiOR threatens the Prime Minister with court
If the constitutionally authorized representatives of the Government of the Republic of Poland fail to comply with this request, KZRKiOR requests the resumption of talks and renegotiation of the unexecuted contents and provisions of the arrangements with the signatories of the agreement, with immediate effect, on April 23, 2024. at. 12:00, indicating the seat of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development as the place of renegotiation – writes the president of KZRiOR.
It also emphasizes that the failure of the government to join by April 23, 2024. time. 12:00 for renegotiation will be treated as a unilateral termination of the arrangements by the government, which will result in KZRKiOR applying Art. 8 and art. 9 of the Act on socio-professional organizations of farmers, which in practice means taking the case to court and starting a protest action.
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