“We still have little information about the impact of the catastrophe on the Valencian economic fabric, but what does arrive is terrifying.” The president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV), Salvador Navarro, recognizes in conversation with ABC that the human drama that is being experienced is of such caliber and the needs for help are so urgent that the balance of damage to the business fabric of the flood that devastated the province of Valencia last Tuesday has been left in the background. “There are businessmen who have not even had the opportunity to enter their companies and do not know the magnitude of what they are going to find,” he acknowledges. The uncertainty about the size of the disaster, which in any case is expected to be devastating, does not mitigate the demand for a rapid response that is up to the task on the part of the Administration. “Here a ‘Marshall Plan’ is going to be needed and it will of course have to involve the regional government and the Central Government, but also Europe,” warns the president of the main employers’ association in the region. Related News standard Si Fulgencio Coll: ” The Government should have taken command, it was negligent” Pilar De la Cuesta The retired general, today in the ranks of Vox, considers this attitude of the Executive “unforgivable”, which in her opinion should have assumed the relief device from the first momentABC has have had the opportunity to talk with some of the main representatives of the Valencian business community, who in some cases have preferred not to be mentioned in this article, and have been able to verify the coincidence in their demands: a quick response to meet the most urgent needs of families and companies, the need for unity of action between the different administrations to achieve it and the commitment that the efforts of the administrations in the area will be maintained for the period necessary to guarantee the full recovery of a thriving industrial area, which has “We are not going to overcome this in four months or a year, it will take many years,” predicts one of the sources consulted. «The most urgent thing is to serve the families and companies that have lost it, reopen the rail and road connections to give us the opportunity to even begin to develop our activity, but later we will have to consider how to recover the fabric of small and medium-sized companies. businesses and small businesses in the area, which have been devastated; and, of course, develop the necessary infrastructure so that what has happened is not repeated,” emphasizes this businessman. Economic emergency “Large companies are going to move forward, but when the mud is cleaned up there will be a hair salon that will not be able to return.” to open, a bar that will not be able to open again or a workshop that will not be able to open and that is what worries us,” says Navarro. “There are people who have lost everything, it is urgent that aid arrive as soon as possible, both to families and companies, many of them SMEs,” emphasizes José Vicente Morata, president of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce. Both the central government and the regional administration have already put measures on the table. Labor has activated the ERTE due to force majeure, Social Security has opened the door for the exemption from payment of contributions to be not 90% but 100%, the Minister of Economy, Carlos Corpus, reported yesterday that the Consortium of Insurance Compensation has already received nearly 36,000 applications and hopes to begin compensating those affected at the end of this week and Mazón has promised non-refundable aid of 6,000 euros to each affected person to cover their most urgent needs. “All this is positive, but more than words we want to see it turned into actions, there are people who have been without income since Tuesday,” says Salvador Navarro. “We don’t want them to give us money to close the companies, we want them to help us so that the businessmen and self-employed people who have lost everything have a future,” he says. Another of the business representatives consulted admits that there is fatigue and sadness among businessmen. «There are businessmen from other autonomies who have contacted us to come help and it turns out that they are not allowed. There is lack of coordination. The most urgent thing is that the administrations coordinate and function as a single command,” he denounces. Valencian businessmen and unions will meet today with Yolanda Díaz to address these first emergency aid and on Wednesday they will do so with the banks and with the ICO in search also financial relief measures. Business organizations want a general exemption from social and tax obligations to be recognized for the affected companies as long as they do not normalize their activity and also a favorable tax treatment for small companies and small businesses that will have to start from scratch after the catastrophe. .
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