Podemos is once again using the Dana attack that hit southeastern Spain last week to criminalize large companies operating in this area. Even 24 hours after President Pedro Sánchez presented the first aid plan, worth 10.6 billion, for the affected areas, the Purple Party assured that “this social shield” must be financed by fines and sanctions imposed on “criminal enterprises” that kept their workers active in the middle of Dana. The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, explicitly mentioned “Mercadona, Inditex, Ikea and Coca-Cola”.
Can thus deepens the strategy of searching for the culprits in the economic world which was already launched shortly before the scale of the tragedy that devastated the Valencian Community and other autonomous communities was known. Last week, he presented a non-legal proposal to investigate and fine companies that he believes should have completely shut down business from the start. However, on this occasion he did not go as far as now, in which he named the companies he considers guilty, to which he attributed scandalous behavior.
Additionally, Belarra, during a coIn his televised speech, he assured that it is a question of “political responsibility” that these companies be identified directly, or even resorting to accusations, “after endangering their workers”. “Exemplary sanctions must be imposed on them” so that they “pay for what they have done”.
In an equally harsh tone, The former Equalities Minister predicted that none of these companies “will be able to repair the damage they have caused”.in particular to Valencian society.”
Podemos also places in its crosshairs the owners of tourist accommodation in the affected areas, pleading for these types of properties to be expropriated by the authorities so that they can be used to house the injured and those left homeless.
