The president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, considers that the new ministers of the Government are "right", although he has admitted that he would have liked more "from the economic perspective" that Junts had remained in the executive. In addition, he has stressed the importance of the budgets for next year going ahead.
To do this, he has asked the first opposition group, Junts, for "responsibility and generosity" to approve them. In statements to Ràdio 4 and La 2, Sánchez Llibre warned that extending the budgets would be "bad news" since around 2,500 million euros of Next Generation funds would be lost.
For this reason, he has asked both the Government and the opposition to look to the horizon to face an economic context that he has described as "difficult and complicated". "Budgets are a sign of rigour, solvency and stability," he added.
On the other hand, the president of Foment del Treball lamented that the president of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has ruled out new agreements with a party "as important" as the PSC. The leader of the Republicans made this announcement this weekend and reproached the Socialists for not being committed "to the end of repression." "It is too forceful a statement seeing that ERC has a parliamentary minority," said Sánchez Llibre.
As for the general budgets of the State, he has asserted that he is "radically against" the new taxes and also criticizes the fact that the accounts are "excessively optimistic." "There is a terrible short-sightedness on the part of the State", he has sentenced. Foment's president has also taken a position on another burning issue, the unions' demand to raise wages to cushion the blow of inflation. Sánchez Llibre has assured that businessmen are "willing". And he has given the example of the agreement between the employers and the UGT union for the new collective agreement for the hotel industry in Catalonia. Likewise, he has advanced that "soon" there will be new "important" agreements in "relevant sectors of the Spanish economy."
