Irene Montero has charged in an act in Murcia in opposition to the president of Mercadona, Juan Roig. “While Podemos is within the Government, there is no such thing as a one anonymous, Mr. Juan Roig, and even much less the highly effective who’re conditioning entry to the fitting to meals”, stated the Minister for Equality.
For days Unidas Podemos has been the goal of its criticism of the president of Mercadona. Pablo Echenique accused him this week of exercising, together with different magnates, a “ruthless capitalism” to which the Executive should react to stop them from deciding what households can or can’t eat.
Last week the Minister of Social Rights and chief of Podemos, Ione Belarra, harassed that the issue of excessive meals costs has to do with inflation but in addition with “hypothesis”, to which she has claimed that the Government ought to take “sturdy hand” and “forceful” measures.
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In Podemos they imagine that capping the utmost worth of meals to put it at ranges previous to the battle in Ukraine, because it has proposed to the PSOE, is an “urgency” to make sure an “reasonably priced” value of those merchandise, on condition that the State has already intervened within the vitality market (with the cap on fuel) and within the rental market (by limiting the rise in rents to 2%).
Other criticisms of Podemos to Juan Roig are directed at his alleged practices in opposition to the rights of staff, citing “obstacles” for the unionization of workers and even requesting medical go away.
They additionally reproach Roig for his political views, which in his opinion are “ultra-conservative” and “ultra-neoliberal”, by launching that in the course of the pandemic he got here to affirm that what was wanted was “extra choose and shovel” as a substitute of speaking a lot about vaccines.
Juan Roig’s response
Juan Roig has not made any direct reference to those criticisms, however this Tuesday he defended the function of managers and businessmen in Spain: “We are those who generate wealth and well-being. If later those that must handle know the right way to do it, there’s wealth for everybody; if not, there’s confrontation”.
Who did come out in his protection was the president of CaixaBank, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri. “I want we had loads of profitable entrepreneurs,” he stated Friday. Goirigolzarri has highlighted the transformation technique of Mercadona within the final 20-30 years, which he has described as “extraordinary” and has recalled that he’s the most important employer in Spain, with almost 100,000 staff.
“If 15 years in the past anybody requested us wherein sectors the 2 corporations which have grown essentially the most and which might be benchmarks within the Spanish financial system have been going to be, no person would have talked concerning the textile sector and meals distribution,” he added, referring to Inditex. and Mercadona.