“We need an autonomous government soon and that it be stable.” These are the words of Salvador Navarro, president of the Valencian Business Confederation (CEV), who is holding his assembly this morning, pronounced while Carlos Mazón began in the Corts the conversations aimed at the formation of that next executive.
“Only by guaranteeing political, institutional, social and legislative stability will it be possible to maintain the progressive economic and employment recovery underway”, Navarro stated later in the speech addressed to the main representatives of the business community. And immediately he has exposed a list of “musts” for the next government whose first point is the demand for fair financing.
“We ask the new government of the Generalitat to press, be brave, and make sure that we have guaranteed the same resources as the rest to attend to education, health, social services and so that there is room to promote development policies region and modernization of the productive model”.
Navarro asks “the same courage, if not more, for the government to come out on 23J.” In his opinion, “the problem derived from under-financing has condemned the Valencian Community to incur levels of deficit and debt significantly higher than those that can be justified by the level of spending.”
The businessmen also recall that “the general State budgets have been especially unfair this year with the province of Alicante”. And they ask that their distribution correspond to the population, “they have not done so since 2008, with governments of a different color,” Navarro stressed. That he has also asked for better treatment for the ceramic industry: “if it is about competing on equal terms, how is Castellón, the most industrialized province in Spain, going to do it, if its industry continues to not receive the aid that has been “doping” for a long time? to its competitors? Are we going to drop the industry that has the greatest capacity for innovation and that directly employs more than 73,000 professionals?”, he exclaimed.
The CEV also requests that the new government “do away with excessive bureaucracy”, reduce tax pressure, repeal “the tourist tax” and in terms of innovation “maintain the strategic alliance with the CEV, because the size of our companies, a low productivity and a still scarce presence of innovation-intensive activities limit our capacity for growth”.
In the infrastructure chapter, the Valencian businessmen insist on “speeding up the works of the Mediterranean Corridor and the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor”, that the new northern terminal of the Port of Valencia “receives the approval of the Council of Ministers without waiting” for the electoral results of July”, that the Alicante-Elche-Miguel Hernández airport ceases to be the only major airport in Europe that does not have a train connection. The CEV does not renounce “a fundamental water infrastructure for Alicante such as the Tajo-Segura transfer , in whose defense we stand firm”.
Navarro has dedicated a few words to training, “that yes or yes, it will have to adapt to the digital revolution that is not exempt from risks that we are witnessing, while correcting the mismatch between supply and demand in the labor market that is already spreading to all economic activities, for which FP and Dual FP will have to be promoted”.
And he closed his speech by demanding that both governments, the regional and central governments that come out of the 23-J elections, “value the economic and social progress to which the social agents have contributed in recent years, recognize the extremely important role that we have business organizations and also trade unions have played by reaching numerous agreements that have contributed to resolving critical situations and that no one doubts that socio-economic growth is not possible without concertation and social dialogue”.
