The fight continues: Why did Disney end up suing the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, in court?

The conflict that has been dragging on since 2022 the most important company in Florida and the highest political authority of the state will reach the courts of justice.

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The Walt Disney Company denounced this Wednesday the 26th the Republican governor Ron DeSantis before a federal court in North Florida.

The giant firm sued DeSantis and other officials in court for state land grabs and an “orchestrated campaign” that constitutes a “threat” to its “business operations” and “economic future” in a region where it has a complex of theme parks and hotels with a workforce of more than 70,000 people and generating $1.2 billion in taxes a year.

The business group also alleges that its “constitutional rights” are being violated in Florida, according to the text of the lawsuit filed in the federal courts in Tallahassee, the state capital. The complaint finds its origin in a decision adopted by the new board of directors, imposed by the local government in a district administered for more than 50 years by Disney, with which it annuls an agreement signed by Disney and the previous administration at the end of February.

The complicated case originated after the entertainment company publicly criticized a controversial law promoted by DeSantis, known as “Don’t Say Gay”, which prohibits talking about gender identity and sexual orientation in Florida schools.

Faced with the pronouncement, the Republican governor launched a campaign against the company in which he encouraged it to withdraw the status of special district that it obtained in 1967 through a state decree on the area where its famous theme parks were built.

DeSantis, who was re-elected in 2022 with a large majority, is entrenching his conservative agenda with a battery of laws that pass easily because both houses of Florida’s Congress are dominated by Republicans.

In this interactive created by Trade Learn step by step how the conflict between DeSantis, one of the spokesmen within the Republican Party to fight Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential primaries, and Disney, a powerful political actor and great promoter of tourism in Florida, escalated to the current point .

Source: Elcomercio

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