WARSAW, March 9 Polish farmers will continue protests regardless of results of Saturday's meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Domian Murawiec, one of the protest leaders in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, told reporters.
Farmer protests have been taking place in Poland since the beginning of February. The main demands of the protesters are to stop the import of agricultural products from Ukraine to Poland and to abandon the environmental plans of the European Union (the so-called Green Deal), which involves achieving zero emissions into the atmosphere by 2050.
“Whatever information was announced by Mr. Prime Minister after today’s meeting, we will not leave the barricades, we will protest,” Muravets said.
«These may take different forms — more or less acute — but we assure the farmers that today we will not sign any agreement, we will patiently listen to what Mr. Prime Minister can offer us, but we cannot sign any agreement, since we represent 300 protest initiatives from all over the country, and we must coordinate all such decisions with individual leaders,” he added.
During the farmers' street protest on Wednesday, protesters behaved uncharacteristically aggressively. Near the Prime Minister's Office building, protesters provoked clashes with police, set fire to tires and threw burning objects towards the building. Near the Sejm building, they dismantled the cobblestone sidewalk and threw stones at the police, 14 police officers were injured. More than 50 riot participants were detained.