The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, who at the time was in favor of the pardons that the Government granted to the prisoners of the process in 2021, assured yesterday after meeting with the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that the employers’ association he directs “He is against the amnesty.”
The president of the CEOE considers that the amnesty is outside the Constitution, and invited PSOE and PP to sit down to negotiate the future government, because between the two constitutionalist parties, they represent 95% of Spaniards.
“We have always said the same thing. Spanish businessmen are with the unity of Spain, with the 1978 Constitution, and we are moving towards moderation with the economic agreements with the unions, which has always worked fantastically well.”
The president of the employers’ association stressed that the CEOE is “with the parliamentary monarchy, which is among the 20 best democracies in the world; it is with the separation of powers, with the rule of law. We are there and I will stay there,” he said when asked for Yolanda Díaz’s proposal that the amnesty be the result of a great consensus with civil society and social agents, including businessmen,
But in case there was any doubt, he added: “I am not going to enter into partisan politics,” but “institutions and forms must be respected. We are going to work within the constitutional order. Amnesty, no.”
