The head of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has offered this Sunday before the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, to open a new stage in Catalonia of "collaboration, meeting and dialogue" between administrations in which "join forces" and favor " coexistence and agreement.
Sánchez extended his hand to the Generalitat in his speech at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) welcome dinner chaired by Felipe VI at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, where the mayoress of the Catalan capital also attended , Ada Colau.
For Sánchez, the largest technology fair in the world highlights the positive aspects of collaboration between institutions when working with "loyalty and trust". “We are opening a new stage of collaboration, meeting and dialogue, focusing on everything that unites us, which is the progress of Barcelona and Catalonia”, demanded the President of the Government.
An "open, plural and dynamic" Catalonia for which, he added, "it is worth joining forces and wills". “It is something that we all have to dedicate ourselves to. Let's do it from the value of coexistence and agreement, from the shared will to overcome differences to continue advancing for the good of the people. That is what politics is for ”, Sánchez emphasized in his speech, after that of Aragonés, who, like Colau, did not participate in the protocol greeting the king in a gesture of rejection of the monarchy.
In addition to highlighting the role of the Generalitat and Barcelona City Council in organizing the Mobile, the Chief Executive thanked the King for his "closeness and solidarity" towards this annual event. His presence, he stressed, is "an expression of his commitment to Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain."
Before the executives of the GSMA, the employers' association of mobile operators and organizer of Mobile, and prominent company presidents, such as Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete, or Caixabank, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, Sánchez showed off the evolution of the Spanish economy despite inflation and the effects of the war in Ukraine. In his opinion, Spain "resists the onslaught of uncertainty with strength and solidity."
