{"id":167432,"date":"2025-02-27T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=167432"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:10:06","slug":"after-nearly-a-month-of-protests-farmers-from-raca-have-their-demands-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/after-nearly-a-month-of-protests-farmers-from-raca-have-their-demands-met\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER NEARLY A MONTH OF PROTESTS: Farmers from Ra\u010da have their demands met!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After nearly a month of protests, <strong>farmers from Ra\u010da have won their fight<\/strong> to have their demands met. At today&#8217;s <strong>emergency session<\/strong> of the <strong>Ra\u010da Municipal Assembly<\/strong>, which was convened with only <strong>one item on the agenda<\/strong>, a unanimous decision was made to <strong>roll back the property tax increase<\/strong> of approximately <strong>60% for 2025<\/strong> to last year&#8217;s level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since <strong>January 30<\/strong>, <strong>farmers&#8217; tractors<\/strong> have been parked in <strong>the main street of Ra\u010da<\/strong>, blocking traffic. However, it now appears that they will <strong>be removed starting tomorrow<\/strong>, as the <strong>farmers&#8217; request to return the property tax to last year&#8217;s rate was approved<\/strong> in today&#8217;s <strong>emergency session<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was <strong>unanimously adopted<\/strong> by all <strong>present council members<\/strong>, who are part of the ruling coalition. Farmers say this is <strong>their victory<\/strong>, but they <strong>will not remove their tractors until the decision is officially published<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Twenty-eight days of struggle, blocking businesses, our fellow citizens, 18 days freezing in the streets in subzero temperatures, ten days spent inside the municipal building\u2014 and we have managed to win and overturn the decision that brought us here in the first place,&#8221;<\/em> said <strong>Milan Milo\u0161evi\u0107<\/strong>, a farmer from <strong>Ra\u010da<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0aLyWPFU7k4QNNtbdZ132PsHCwfkUSvmUFtG9m2M1ATvwQg5Yruth264rUz5KqMbPl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"616\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, farmers <strong>secured another concession<\/strong>\u2014 in the future, <strong>land subject to property tax will be divided into multiple zones<\/strong>, instead of just <strong>two<\/strong>, as was previously the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since their <strong>main demand has been met<\/strong>, <strong>farmers have withdrawn their request for the dismissal of municipal leadership<\/strong>. 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