After days of controversial statements about businessmen, personified in the figure of Juan Roig, the president of the Valencian Association of Businessmen (AVE) once again criticizes “the bad image that some try to give of businessmen.” This was expressed this afternoon at the closing of the General Assembly of the business lobby, held at the facilities of L’Alqueria del Basket de València.

Boluda has assured that probably “the proximity of the elections” has caused criticism of businessmen to emerge from some, of whom he has assured that “they do not believe in businessmen or in private initiative.” Likewise, the shipping company has also confirmed that “we are not going to enter into dialectical battles” and has stressed that the business community is focused on creating employment, being ethical and contributing to improving the situation. In a firm defense of the group that he represents, he has said that “we are the true motors of our economy and those who, together with our workers and collaborators, are taking the country forward.”

President Ximo Puig has also expressed himself in his closing parliament on the controversy opened by Podemos leaders, avoiding direct allusions at all times. However, Puig has said that “caricaturing today’s businessman as if he were the rich man from Monopoly is unfair, anachronistic, and also fallacious.”

Thus, he has defended that the business model represented by AVE is characterized by being committed to the generation of quality employment, strategic projects or the promotion of training and innovation; “and it is fair to remember it here when there is too much noise outside and, on occasions, little responsibility”, he has sentenced.

The head of the Consell believes that “the proposal is very simple: the more facilities, the more opportunities for the Valencian Community, and that works for Volkswagen and for everyone”, explained Ximo Puig, who also pointed out that the conditions for suitable investment.

Likewise, and after the storm of statements in recent weeks, the president wanted to show that the Valencian government’s commitment to the company is firm, for which reason he has announced that this will also be evidenced tomorrow, when Company Day is presented. in the Valencian Community, an initiative that Puig announced at an event at the CEV last June to make visible its “importance in economic and social development and coexistence”.

In his speech, Boluda has also been critical of regional financing – “it is urgent to change the model so that basic services such as health, education and social services can be covered in all the territories of Spain” – and he has focused on the battle of the Mediterranean corridor that AVE leads from the Quiero Corredor platform.

Likewise, it has maintained that the Government must implement “a unique and national water policy in which saving, reuse and, when necessary, solidarity prevail”.