The fight against the A22 tolls in the Algarve will be returning in full force this summer, anti-tolls group CUVI announced this week. Protests will take the form of a slow march, a petition and demonstrations outside the Algarve holiday homes of the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic.
The first protest, on July 12, will be a slow march on the EN125 road between Loulé and Faro from 5.30pm. Then on July 20 demonstrators will join the bikers’ parade in Faro. The idea is to garner as much support as possible at a time that the Algarve welcomes a large influx of visitors to the region.
In August protesters will again set up camp outside the holiday homes of PM Pedro Passos Coelho in Manta Rota and President Cavaco Silva in Albufeira’s Aldeia da Coelha. It will be the third year in a row that CUVI protesters demonstrate outside their Algarve homes and not once have they been heard by either.
A new petition calling for the suspension of the A22 tolls is also in the pipeline. CUVI has been fighting the tolls for years, even before they were implemented on December 8 2011.
