00:00 The European far right in Valencia is aiming to win over the farming industry's support
00:09 in the upcoming June elections.
00:12 A new Spanish grassroots platform called 6F joins a dozen other European agricultural
00:18 associations calling for an end to the Green Deal, protection of the European internal
00:24 market and slashing free trade agreements with third countries.
00:35 Although 6F is an independent movement, some of its organisers are figures close to the
00:41 far right.
00:42 However, the new pan-European agricultural platform will not ask for votes for a specific
00:48 party.
00:49 "What we have done is we made enormous posters and banners and we put the logos of the parties
00:55 who did very bad things for farms and for our Dutch citizens and we put a red cross
01:00 in it and people understood."
01:03 New candidates will fight the hard right party Vox for the rural vote, with the main agricultural
01:09 platforms not directly contesting the elections.
01:12 "Maybe they have learned from the yellow vests movement in France, which in 2019 presented
01:19 two candidates for the European elections and did not achieve enough to get representation."
01:25 The SOS rural platform, which encompasses more than 500 organisations from the primary
01:32 sector, has chosen to try to influence political parties to include their demands in their
01:38 electoral programs.
01:40 "From our point of view, we believe that with one, two or three deputies, the capacity
01:47 of influence is quite limited.
01:49 We need to influence the big political groups in Europe, call it the popular group or the
01:54 socialist group, to try to change the policies in Europe."
01:58 Despite its similarities with Vox, SOS Rural seems to have distanced itself from the more
02:04 conservative ideas of the Spanish far right party.
02:07 However, EU agricultural policy protests benefit Vox, according to analysis.
02:13 So who will conquer the 700,000 Spanish farmers?
02:18 Their vote will be decisive in the upcoming European elections.
02:22 [SWOOSH]
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