2023-05-19 15:31:01
They have patiently awaited the arrival of the PP candidates at an electoral act in Horcajo de Santiago (Cuenca). About twenty farmers stood at the gates of the place where the former President of the Government, José María Aznar, was going to shelter the candidate for the Presidency of the Junta Paco Núñez and the local candidate and candidate for the Castilla-La Mancha Parliament, María Roldan.
The Roldán family company – Cereals Roldán SL – owes them money from unpaid crops for two years, so yesterday they announced, in statements to elDiarioclm.es, that they would claim it taking advantage of the presence of the ‘populares’ in the town of Cuenca, beyond the fact that several of the 200 affected families have already initiated judicial proceedings or are in the process of doing so. The debt amounts to hundreds of thousands of euros from the 2020 and 2021 harvests.
One of the main campaign arguments of Paco Núñez and his candidates has to do precisely with the agricultural sector. On a recent trip to Brussels during the run-up to the campaign, the president of the Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, promised in the European Parliament to defend farmers and ranchers in a government that, he said, “will have the countryside in the epicenter of his political action.
“Castilian-La Mancha farmers and ranchers cannot continue to put up with a situation that is leading them to bankruptcy and adrift,” he said then, since the sector must be “defended.”
Today, the paradox is that the same farmers whom the PP defends are demanding payment for their work from a company linked to one of the PP’s candidates for the regional courts. “Roldán pays now! 200 families ruined”, could be read on a banner.
Fernando and Carlos, two of the farmers who have denounced non-payments by Cereals Roldán SL, have attended, along with twenty other people, the event scheduled by the PP in the town this Friday.
“It has been impossible to talk to them and the act was not public, but by invitation. Many people who have come have hit their noses with the door”, stressed the farmers. In addition, they have assured that they have been called “bought”. They were still at the gates of the event at 2:45 p.m.
“Socialists! Socialists!” some companions of the PP entourage rebuked the farmers gathered there while they also chanted “president, president!” the candidate of the Castilian-Manchego PP and without stopping to talk with the affected farmers
“They have not listened to us. We have been at the door with the banner and we have not seen María, Paco and Aznar have, and they have not looked back”, those affected emphasize. “They have called us bought, yes, little bought, with the lot of money they owe us,” they said.
The candidate for Mayor and Parliament of Castilla-La Mancha María Roldán disassociated herself yesterday in statements to elDiarioclm.es of the situation. “I have not managed or administered anything,” she said, despite the fact that in the declaration of income, assets and activities that she must present as a deputy in the Castilla-La Mancha Parliament, she appears in the management area of this company. familiar. For the candidate of the PP “the news is that there is a company that has problems to pay, because non-payments have been made and it is difficult to pay due to treasury problems.”
Núñez, at the rally: the primary sector “needs help”
While the farmers remained outside with their protest, the PP candidate referred to the agricultural sector at his rally to say that farmers, ranchers and the industry related to the primary sector “need help” and lamented that “there is no plan of drought put on the table”.
In the same way, he has also put on the table the “big problem” that the region has with the rabbit population, “which are eating the crops” and has blamed the Government of Emiliano García-Page, proposing an alternative, that of PP “that generates” trust and certainty, that takes care of us, because what is good for the Castilian-Manchegos will be good for the country as a whole”.
María Roldán, without allusions to farmers
For her part, the mayoress and candidate for re-election, María Roldán, has promised to “defend” Horcajo de Santigo and has criticized that the PSOE government has not allocated “not a single euro” to a need in her town such as It is the health center, “just lies for all the hocajeños.”
“You will allocate the money for the health center that has been in debt for so many years — the Board — with all of us,” he said, addressing Núñez, without mentioning those who were outside demanding non-payments.
Aznar asks the candidates for “coherence”
At the same rally, José María Aznar predicted that with a victory for Núñez in these regional elections, the region could become the “main actor” in the country. “That can be done by adding up, every minute you can do something better, have a greater ambition and that is the effort we have to put on the table,” he recommended.
Aznar has advised both Núñez and Roldán to have “coherence” so that “what is said is what is done and what is proclaimed is exactly what is later done” because “when you do that you deserve respect.”
“I think Castilla-La Mancha needs a change, it will have it and his name is Paco Núñez,” he said, according to Europa Press.
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