Foment del Treball lives with great anxiety in the face of the vagaries of Spanish and Catalan politics. Considered in Madrid as suspicious of separatism, the Catalan bosses do not have the refuge they found during the long Pujolista mandate. The heirs of Junts per Catalonia are an immature and weak party. The PSC – which carries the Government of the Generalitat – does not currently assume the employer’s path. Promotion values ​​the stability that Salvador Illa has brought to Catalan politics, but he would like to see his partners in the ERC and Communities move away and moderate their pact with the unions. A happy world for employers would be, for example, if the PSC and the PSOE opposed, like Puigdemont, the reduction of working hours, vetoed energy taxes, abolished inheritances and reduced the tax burden. With the entity with Together the situation close to ancient times would occur. In the employers’ nostalgia, perhaps, the trajectory of the current president of Foment, Josep Sánchez Llibre, for 23 years CiU deputy in Madrid and his nationalist sambenito weighs heavily. I am sure that the business leader has spent fewer years in which the experience of Convergència – with the PNV – had been the main key to governmental governance in Congress. The PP or the PSC were then necessary collaborators in Pujol’s town halls in Parliament. And since then, the interests of Catalan entrepreneurs have been represented, here and in Madrid, by CiU. Today, the employer has no recourse but to take care of what exists.
In Catalonia, the process destroyed the ancient world of Foment. CiU disappeared and the employer had to ask the PP government for a decree for the transfer of the company’s headquarters. It was for legal certainty. Today, while tempers are calming down and businesses are gradually returning, the existing political majority is not to the bosses’ taste. On the one hand, Foment tries to agree with Junts on major economic issues (on which he votes with the PP and Vox), while on the other, he hopes in vain that the PSC and PSOE will get rid of their left-wing allies.
During his recent visit to Barcelona, ​​Alberto Núñez Feijóo trusted in the good chemistry of Foment with Puigdemont to access the central government. But it is difficult for Junts to accept instrumental motions of censure towards a PP which has harshly repressed independence, opposes amnesty and only ends up with an extreme right that wants to illegalize peripheral nationalism. In fact, 42% of Puigdemont voters preferred Pedro Sánchez as president of the government. The bosses, for their part, also receive an executive with the ultraderecha, which threatens the social stability acquired in Catalonia. The beans, however, tried star fruit. I come to Barcelona to try to earn income from my old favors.
Recently, Puigdemont only spoke to Foment about refraining from extending the life of nuclear power plants, a theme that Sánchez Llibre defended with conviction due to the structural need – for security – of this type of energy, even if some bad language evokes what could be gratitude for the work he has done. electricity at the time of connection of the red numbers that the previous mandates were left in the employer’s accounts. The PSOE, for its part, is not closed to anything, as demonstrated by the Christmas gift to Foment ya Junts de la ley de multirrecidencia.
But the Catalan boss feels enormous since the disappearance of CiU. Foment was so in tune with Pujol’s formation that he gave him generous funds during electoral campaigns. The difference is that CiU has been reliable and Ensemble will not stay in the lead until Puigdemont returns. If, moreover, the Catalan Alliance is part of the electoral past, the feeling of orphanhood will continue to persist.
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