Spokesperson of the Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana, Ruth MerinoHe evaluated: Junts per Catalunya’s demand that the Government’s right to vote be subject to fines for companies that they will not return to Catalonia as expected Pioneer this is a attack on corporate freedom“, an “event” and a “selfish” measure that broke the equality of the Spaniards.
“A party like Junts, a party that puts not only the Spanish Government but also the equality of Spaniards in trouble, is an attack and oppression on the freedom of companies,” Merinos said at a press conference after the Council’s plenary meeting. said. “They freely decide where they want to settle, and it seems to me that enforcement “At least it’s an unnecessary event,” he emphasized.
In this sense, when asked whether Consell would take any initiative to ensure that there is no movement of merchandise since most of the merchandise moves to the Valencian Community after 1 October 2017, Merino elaborated that the Valencian government is: “It’s not just financial, “We are also setting the conditions to streamline bureaucratic procedures so that companies want to stay.” Beyond that, “there’s no specific plan because this isn’t going to go anywhere,” he concluded.
It should be noted that the agreement reached by PSOE and Junts to appoint Pedro Sánchez as head of government also included “facilitating and encouraging” the return of the companies’ headquarters to Catalonia. To other regions, including the Valencian Community, after 1 October 2017. Two of the companies that did this were CaixaBank and Sabadell bank, which moved its headquarters to Valencia and Alicante.
Reconciliation: “Punitiveness is not the solution”
Not only the Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana reacted to the Junt’s proposal. From Madrid, Àgueda Micó, Sumar’s deputy speaker in Congress and leader of Compromís, rejected the Catalan party’s request to impose sanctions on companies leaving Catalonia due to tensions arising from the independence process. “Punishment is not the solution”he stated at a press conference in the Lower House.
Junts spokesman Josep Rius said on Tuesday that the Catalan party thought companies that moved their headquarters from Catalonia due to the ‘procés’ could be “sanctioned” if they do not return. The proposal was made a day before the Government is to submit three decree laws to Congress in an extraordinary session on justice, unemployment benefits reform and crisis relief aid.
However, according to Micó, companies should not be penalized for choosing this or that location to pursue their economic activities. This would be even more true if the decision to leave was linked to a political conflict, he said. Instead, the Valencia representative believes It is time to “expose” the reason why companies are moving their headquarters so that there is no political conflict.