He will meet tomorrow with Carrefour, which participated in an initiative that was developed in France and that Díaz wants to replicate, and on Monday he will meet with Spanish distributors and consumers
She is determined and accelerates the negotiations. The Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has announced that tomorrow she will hold a meeting with Carrefour to discuss the issue of the limit on the price of basic foods. As explained by Díaz, the meeting is at the urgent request of the French distribution company because it already has experience in France with this measure and is interested in advancing the tasks.
Precisely, as the vice president responded to questions at a press conference, the model she has in mind is the French one: she advocates an agreement between distributors and consumer associations to limit prices in a basic basket of twenty or thirty foods that guarantee a healthy diet. “It is completely legal, it has been done in France with Sarkozy and it has worked,” she explained.
The minister has insisted on the exceptional situation in which the country finds itself, which must be addressed with “solutions, imagination and as many solutions as necessary to help people”. “This is the characteristic of the Government of Spain,” she remarked. In this sense, she has urged to take measures “that can be fulfilled now, at this time.”
After the meeting that Díaz will hold tomorrow with Carrefour, on Monday the meeting will be broader: the large Spanish distributors and consumer associations are convened. If he has recalled that the French company was the one that participated in the task of guaranteeing a basic quality food basket at controlled prices in France, he has shown his confidence that Spanish companies will also “come up to the task”.
“I have never talked about unilateral caps”
First thing in the morning, the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, in an interview on RNE, argued that if an agreement to limit the price of food is not possible, the Government has to think of mandatory mechanisms to make it possible. Díaz, in this regard, has affirmed that it is necessary to go “step by step”, to, immediately afterwards, make it clear that she “never” has advocated for “unilateral caps”, but for agreements: “I speak of an agreement to limit prices in a basic basket of twenty or thirty foods. She has summoned companies to reach this pact using persuasive strategies: “Everyone is aware that we are in an exceptional situation.”
Díaz has also echoed the concerns of the producers. Although they will not participate in the meetings or in the agreement, they will be taken into account in it, so that they are not negatively affected, as explained by the vice president.
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