The Murcian Parliament fails to reach a position on the EU-Mercosur agreement

The Plenary of the Regional Assembly of Murcia has not reached a position on the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), as both the motion by Vox against this trade agreement and the three amendments to the whole presented by PSOE, PP, and the Mixed Group (Podemos-IU/V-AV) were rejected. Before the debate on the motion began, the president of the Chamber, Visitación Martínez, asked the deputies of Vox to remove some posters with the slogan ‘No to Mercosur’. The proponent of the motion, Antonio Martínez Nieto, has highlighted Vox's rejection of Mercosur and accused PSOE and PP of "stabbing" the farmers. "It is necessary to pull off the mask of those responsible for the Mercosur agreement, who are the same mortal enemies of Murcian irrigation," he asserted. For Martínez Nieto, the EU-Mercosur agreement is "a declaration of war" on agriculture, and the safeguard regulation a "defective" last-minute mechanism, which "is ...