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Jaén Merece Más warns about Mercosur agreement's impact on Jaén's olive sector

The provincialist party labels the treaty an "historic affront," threatening 108,000 families and exacerbating the lack of economic alternatives in the province.

Generic image of olive branches with olives, representing Jaén's agricultural sector.
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Generic image of olive branches with olives, representing Jaén's agricultural sector.

The provincialist party Jaén Merece Más (JM+) has denounced that the imminent trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur represents an "historic affront" for the province, threatening its primary sector and the livelihood of thousands of families.

The party has expressed its concern over the consequences of this treaty, which they consider a "coup de grâce" for a province that, according to them, has been "battered, forgotten, and without economic alternatives" by bipartisanship.
JM+ has quantified the problem, noting that the province of Jaén generates almost 4 million daily wages annually just from harvesting, and over 108,000 families depend directly on agriculture. The profitability of olive groves, the region's economic pillar, would be severely compromised.

We are talking about people with names and surnames, about the survival of our towns. If olive groves cease to be profitable due to this betrayal by PP and PSOE in Brussels, 108,000 families will be left without sustenance, and the province will lose its last economic lung.

Luis García Millán, candidate for the Andalusian Parliament for JM+, has criticized the "unfair competition" that the entry of Mercosur products would entail without the same environmental and labor demands imposed on Andalusian farmers. This situation, according to JM+, would drastically reduce the workload and condemn thousands of workers to precariousness in a territory already affected by a lack of industry.
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"We cannot allow Jaén's agricultural sector to be a bargaining chip in international treaties designed thousands of kilometers from our towns. Demanding that our farmers comply with the world's strictest environmental and labor regulations, while opening the doors wide to products from third countries that do not respect these same rules, is not free market; it is unfair and ruinous competition."

Luis García Millán · Candidate for the Andalusian Parliament for JM+
The party has linked the impact of Mercosur with the "total dismantling" of the provincial productive structure, highlighting the absence of technological industry and the disappearance of extractive industry. They have warned that the combination of a wounded agricultural sector and a lack of industry will lead to depopulation, as young people will be forced to leave the province.
JM+ has urged the Jaén representatives of the PP and PSOE to "abandon their parties' voting discipline and defend the interests of their land," and has announced an institutional offensive to demand mirror clauses and an urgent reindustrialization plan for the province's urban centers.

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