The Spanish-Portuguese platform against tolls on the Algarve's Via do Infante has announced that its latest protest will be on the Guadiana bridge on February 7th.
The ‘International Guadiana March for free movement on the A22 - Tolls Out’, will witness protestors cross over the Guariana bridge twice, hooting away and generally attracting press attention.
The platform is composed of the steadfast Users Committee of the Via do Infante (CUVI) led by Portimão independent councillor João Vasconcelos and the Left Bloc on the Portuguese side, and Spanish parties Podemos and Izquierda Unida on the Spanish side.
The protest aims to "intensify the struggle" against toll payments introduced on December 8, 2011 on the formely free A22, Via do Infante motorway across the Algarve.
The platform members have been planning this protest for a while and vehicles will gather in Vila Real de Santo António, and at the entrance to Ayamonte.
CUVI said it will request a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party, Antonio Costa, to get his opinion on the tolls and hopes to launch a new anti-tolls petition so the subject again can be debated in parliament.
CUVI urges users of the A22 from the Algarve and from Andalusian to participate in the protest, which it considers as being part of a “wider struggle against austerity" and against specific policies of the Portuguese and Spanish governments.
