Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida
said Thursday he had met and was continuing to meet protesting
farmers' groups after one of the main groups set an ultimatum
for noon Saturday to receive them or else see the streets of
Rome invaded by all their tractors.
"As for the farmers' delegations, I have already met them and we
are still meeting associations'," he said.
"All associations in Italy have a dialectical relationship with
the government."
"I do not have the problem of meeting, when I think they are
good people", I have met many delegations, or individuals or
groups".
The minister recalled that there is an "archipelago of
(groups)", but that 'there are some who are evidently used as
testimonials for positions that have little to do with
representation".
A group callings itself Agricultural Redemption earlier said
they would allow their tractors to roam free in the capital
Saturday unless the minister replied to their ultimatum by
midday on that day.
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