Consell had prepared an action plan for the Junts strategy in order to encourage the return of companies that fled after the independence process to Catalonia and included it in the agreements made with the Pedro Sánchez Government to implement the first of the decrees. Coalition manager. The response of Carlos Mazón’s team includes a plan of consolidation measures for these companies in the Valencian Community, presidential sources assured this newspaper. Although the initial idea is to prepare an emergency decree, time will tell how it will be worded, although this last point has not yet been closed. “Everything is in production,” say the sources cited above.
Currently, the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office has been tasked with examining the agreement between Carles Puigdemont’s party on the return of companies. The aim is to decide whether there is an issue that can be appealed to the Constitutional Court. This is one of the initiatives suggested by the Consell chairman when he became aware of Junts’ requirements to support the Government.
However, it seems unlikely that the final content of the agreement will lead to constitutional objection, as it does not include any penalties for companies for not returning to Catalonia, which is known to be the most sensitive element of the negotiations. Between Junts and socialists. What the Catalan sovereignty has achieved is the amendment of the Companies Law in favor of a return to the group of companies in question that broke away in the 2017 process.
thousand companies
Around a thousand. These include some of the main financial institutions in Spain, such as Caixabank and Banc Sabadell, which have moved their official headquarters to Valencia and Alicante respectively, due to the joining of the former to Banco de Valencia and the latter to CAM.
The Companies Law underwent an amendment in 2017, which Junts interpreted as being made to make it easier for companies to leave Catalonia. The change relaxes the conditions for large companies to decide on a new location: from then on, only the board of directors can approve this, although the company charter states that this must be done by the general meeting of shareholders.
Participating in the Heimtextil2024 textile fair, Generalitat president Carlos Mazón demanded from Frankfurt the urgent convening of the Conference of Regional Presidents in response to the “usurpations” of the Junts against the Government of Pedro Sánchez. A demand that joins those of other PP barons such as Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga; Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens and Murcia, Fernando López Miras and others.
The head of Consell argued at last Wednesday’s plenary session of Congress that the executive’s two social decrees had been excessively implemented in exchange for concessions to the independentists, arguing that this was “an absurdity that no one will tolerate” and warned. “The road ahead could certainly be agonizing,” he said, thus insisting that the regional leaders’ forum be convened immediately. Mazón demanded that Sánchez show his face “immediately”. “Yesterday’s real problem [por miércoles]Regarding the transfers from Sánchez to Junts, the president said “Not only is what happened very serious, it is not over”, but also “it has just begun”. “This has not yet been decided in Spain” , it was decided at Waterloo, Puigdemont decides everything that happens,” warned Mazón, adding that he was sorry for the Junts’ decision. “How the Valencian companies were attacked for leaving the Valencian Community, the State’s how it was usurped and how the separation of powers was enforced is broken,” and the problem is that “it has only just begun.”
Similarly, the PP’s ombudsman in the Cortes, Miguel Barrachina, accused the Valencian socialists of “betraying the interests of the Community by secretly admitting that companies that freely decided to become Valencian could be forced to return to Catalonia.”
Sánchez’s weakness
Barrachina deplored the “weakness” of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whose “agenda was determined by the Junts”, in his words. “He is a president shackled by his government partners. This makes it very difficult to govern a country and create policies that benefit all citizens because a few people with very specific interests, like Junts, set the agenda of the Sánchez Government.” stated.
He assured that Valencian socialists “once again choose to be socialists rather than Valencians” and stated that “there is no use in having a Valencian minister like Diana Morant if she is incapable of defending the Valencians.”