As many as 150,000 farmers, ranchers and hunters marched Sunday through Madrid to protest the Spanish centre-left government’s failure to tackle soaring prices exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The mass demonstration came a day after thousands of demonstrators, called by the far-right Vox party, protested against rising food, energy and fuel prices.
Hoisting Spanish flags and blowing whistles, demonstrators walked Sunday through the central avenues of the capital, often led by tractors blaring their horns.
Slogans stamped on protest banners read «Costs continue to rise,» or «We are ranchers on the way to extinction» and «S.O.S rural world.»
The protest, which a government official estimated drew 150,000 people, was organised by the Rural Alliance, which says it represents 10 million people in Spain.
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220320-spain-hit-by-yet-another-mass-protest-over-rising-prices
