Juan Roig criticizes the management of the Dana of the Government and the Generalitat: “One million Spaniards feel helpless”

The president of MercadonaJuan Roig, has criticized the management that “the different public administrations”, in reference to the central government and the Generalitat Valenciana, are carrying out after the DANA OF OCTOBER 29“A huge natural catastrophe with devastating effects that nobody expected” with 223 dead, three missing and “many material and moral damages.”

“One million Spaniards feel helpless”he has lamented, during the hours after the tragedy. “The resignations no longer touches me,” he replied when asked several times for this matter during the press conference for the presentation of the supermarket company in 2024.

“Worst of all,” although “another life in the zero zone” is already noticeable and almost fifteen days later, “there is no joint future plan, because all they do is fight,” he said.

«I am concerned about the reputational crisis that Spain has suffered, within it the Valencian Community, for the management that has not been done, neither agile nor fastof the different administrations, ”he said, to which he has reproached his lack of” coordination. ” “We would have liked that, with the taxes we pay, it would have managed better,” he added.

“I do not get into the management of 29 because it is not quantified.” “At the beginning everyone cost us, except to those who were directly affected, to know what was the dimension of the tragedy,” but “on the 30th you could have done many things.” Although it was “very difficult” to react, “no administration acted with the agility that played,” he said.

«The first four days were disastrousthe people what they remember most is that they got used to the night and the next day that looked like a desert. They believed that people were coming and the only ones who appeared there were some companies and many volunteers, ”he said.

Roig, who lived the 1957 flood in Valencia, has warned about the need to undertake the necessary infrastructure to avoid another similar catastrophe: “If tomorrow came another Dana, we would have the same devastating effects again.”