Juan José Sellés, president of the Alicante State Employment Union (UEPAL), said: “A large part of Alicante’s business community is based in Madrid and Valencia. Corners the province of Alicante”. Sellés referred to the lack of investment in public works in the province of Alicante, the decision to divert the AVE to Madrid’s Chamartín station, and attempts to strengthen the economic zone that now forms the Port and the capital, with the Valencia-Cantabrian axis. Sagunto’s.
The head of UEPAL urged all representatives of the Valencian Community, representing all regions, to clarify what they were advocating, what interests and what remedial measures they had clarified, so that “Alicante did not remain by the facts completed, retreated to a corner of the Valencian Community”.
For the head of businessmen of the state of Alicante, these bets “are not negative. by itselfbut yes making an impact against our interests, our companies and our industries when they arise without any development for the province and when the enhancement of Valencia’s competitiveness is done to the detriment of Alicante”.
Sellés gave as an example the AVE routing from Alicante to Madrid to the north station, this is because new low-cost companies can work with Atocha from Valencia. The result, in his view, is that Alicante “loses a faster connection, prevents access to tourist and commercial services, does not really work with the north of the peninsula, and loses contact with the south, with Andalusia”.
In this sense, he also regretted that the political bet had dispersed the investments “As if the Valencian Community had ended in Valencia”. Links to the north of the peninsula are more interesting, but the fact that this commitment is purely Valencian-Cantabrian is not of general interest, especially when the Mediterranean Corridor is in many respects and specifically descriptive when it enters the province of Alicante. investments.”
Sellés, “as an Alicante and Valencian We defend the entire Valencian Communitybut we cannot assume, as others have done, that the Community starts and ends in Valencia, that the Next Generation funds only find significant projects in their economic sphere of influence, and that Alicante is exempt, such as the Port and Airport. almost everything compared to other infrastructures in the north”.