Farmers' tractors leaving Syntagma on Saturday after protest on Friday afternoon

The farmers' rally at Syntagma Square concluded shortly before 19:30 on Friday with addresses by agriculture and labor unions, crop growers, and cattle breeders.

The rally was organized by the Panhellenic Blocs Committee and included farmers with 70 tractors joined by another 200 producers from Crete who arrived by boat early on Friday. Also joining the rally for a series of demands that farmers said were not resolved satisfactorily after meetings with the prime minister were the confederation of civil servants ADEDY, university associations, and heads of agricultural cooperatives, among others. Police said there were at least 40 tractors and farm machinery and over 1,000 participants in the rally.

President of the Federation of Larissa Agricultural Associations Rizos Maroudas said at Syntagma that the government does have fiscal flexibility to resolve issues, but not political will to do so. He charged that it is pushing farmers out of production, while he warned that mobilizations will continue until their demands are met. These latter include resolving high production costs, providing guaranteed pricing on produce, and changing the regulations of the agricultural insurance organization (ELGA) to provide full (100%) compensation. Other union leaders also conveyed a similar message, underlining that the struggle will continue until agricultural policy changes and until agricultural production becomes viable, underlining they would "continue the fight to the end."

According to farmers' plans, the tractors will remain at Syntagma Square overnight and depart in orderly fashion midday on Saturday.

Support was expressed by SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Sokratis Famellos and Communist Party of Greece (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoubas, who also addressed the rally on Friday.