The managers of the Imserso will claim 15 million from the Ministry of Churches for canceling the program without warning

The companies awarded to manage the Imserso travel program will claim a millionaire compensation from the vice presidency of the Government of Social Rights for canceling the contract without even notifying them.

The Government approved last Tuesday at the proposal of Vice President

"the cancellation of the Imserso social tourism programs for the elderly and maintenance of employment in tourist areas."

The reason: «The health emergency situation derived from COVID-19 persists (...) given that the group to which the tourism and social thermalism programs of the Imserso are directed is one of the groups most affected by

and for the 2020 season, respectively.

Mundiplan (controlled by Iberia and Alsa) and Turismo Social (Globalia and Barceló) have officially learned of the cancellation by the agreement of the Council of Ministers last Tuesday without the vice president Pablo Iglesias or his team having communicated it and requesting collaboration , according to sources from these companies.

“We are aware of the difficulty of carrying out the program with the pandemic and our desire is to collaborate, but things cannot be managed that way and we have not even been informed in advance.

"sources from these successful bidders told this newspaper.

Leaders of business associations in the sector do assure that they learned about the cancellation plan due to a meeting called a few days ago by the Secretary of State for Social Rights,

, but neither Mundiplan nor the former Mundosenior were summoned, according to the winners.

The first meeting was scheduled for this Thursday by the general director of Imserso,

, with representatives of the winners, but was canceled at the last minute.

For his part, from another Ministry, the Secretary of State for Tourism,

, announced this Wednesday that the central government is already working "actively" to improve the Imserso program and adapt it to current circumstances with the aim of making it a program "sure that protects the population that enjoys it year after year."

Speaking in Palma de Mallorca, according to Europa Press, Valdés stated that the decision to suspend the program responds exclusively to "public health" criteria, so as not to unnecessarily expose the elderly, a vulnerable population.

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