The Generalitat’s legal services are skeptical of what is happening in the Council of Ministers and Congress. How the central government handles Junts’ request to encourage the return of companies leaving Catalonia at the height of the process could create extra business for them. Carles Puigdemont’s party’s proposal to impose sanctions on companies that do not return their headquarters to Catalan territory is not welcomed at all in the Valencian Community; so much so that Consell warned yesterday that this measure could be implemented if it were implemented. , before the Constitutional Court.
If at the press conference following the plenary meeting of the Government of Valencia on Tuesday, spokesperson Ruth Merino called the measure an “incident” and an “attack on the freedom of companies”, yesterday the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, made a decision. He also pointed out that the Valencian Administration’s legal mechanisms “have already been warned so that they can object to this proposal on the grounds of unconstitutionality if it is successful.”
Describing Junts’ request as “extortion”, Mazón said, “If necessary, we will apply to the Constitutional Court, we will go all the way.” The PPCV leader insisted that the Valencian Government will defend “the 974 companies already in the Valencian Community” and made a public appeal to Catalan companies wishing to move to the Valencian Community. “They will find a friendlier environment with more facilities and financial support to create jobs,” explained Consell’s chairman, who promised “support and protection”.
The debate about possible incentives or sanctions for companies that have left Catalonia to return to locate their headquarters in this autonomy is frustrating in the Valencian Community. Of the 7,000 people who have left Catalonia since then, about a thousand are on Valencian territory, and therefore the PP wants to put pressure on the Valencian socialists about possible actions of the central government, which yesterday agreed with the Junts to change the company law approved by Mariano Rajoy. in 2017, but without specifying in what sense.
In the press release issued by Puigdemont’s party regarding the agreement not to block Catalonia’s ratification, it is stated that “reforming the capital companies law through the Council of Ministers so that the PP Royal Decree of 2017 can be reversed and companies can return to Catalonia.” Decrees voted in Congress yesterday.
Thus, in addition to the measures taken by Consell or the extent of resorting to the courts, the public also puts pressure on PSPV and Compromís through parliamentary activities. Minutes after Mazón’s remarks, the PPCV ombudsman in the Cortes, Miguel Barrachina, presented an NLP on this issue, “respecting the free choice of the business center and against the approval of privileges or sanctions for its transfer.”
The Catalan Ombudsman explained that the motion has a triple demand: respect for the freedom of “Valencian companies to continue to reside in the Valencian Community”, that the Spanish Government not act against some communities “with the exception of others”, and that since 2017 Catalonia The Companies Act will not be amended so that companies that come “freely” from will have to “return by force”, meaning they will not be “subject to sanctions” for not returning.
“What will Morant and Soler do?”
Given this, Barrachina wondered about the positions of PSPV leaders not only in the Cortes but also in state institutions. “What will Diana Morant do as minister when Sánchez’s party tries to comply with the agreement signed by the Junts to support the separation of the Valencian companies?”; The PPCV spokesperson in the Regional Chamber asked: “What will Alejandro Soler do in the Congress or what will Ximo Puig, who is currently the general secretary of the PSPV, vote in the Senate?” he questioned.
What is mentioned does not seem completely coincidental. Two of the three names are two of the three candidates stated to replace Puig in the party leadership. For now, it is the leader of fists and roses in the Valencian Community who has expressed his rejection of the Junt’s proposal.
“This makes no sense or reasonableness, it is impossible to do it within the European framework,” Puig said, and on the other hand, he underlined that if companies settle in the Valencian Community, it will happen “because there was a framework.” Stability and trust,” he demanded. Mazón tried to continue the discussion by trying to change its focus a little.