In the executive committee that the CEOE held this Wednesday, the discomfort among businessmen due to the attacks and criminalization that they consider they are suffering from members of the Government was clear; and this Friday, two days later, the employers published a statement translating this discomfort into forceful terms. They point to "some political actors and even members of the Government" of carrying out an "unfair strategy of discrediting and discrediting... curiously intensified at the beginning of the electoral year."
No names were given, but it is clear that one of those indicated is the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, who this week described the president of Mercadona, Juan Roig, as a "ruthless capitalist"; which first provoked the response of the respondent and now of the CEOE as an institution. When asked about the cross criticism between the employers and Podemos, the minister spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, said yesterday that the Executive "trusts the private sector", and recalled the fifteen agreements reached between the Government, the unions and the employers.
It is true that there was a moment of great consensus between the Executive and the social agents, with the labor reform as the high point, but also that since then the positions have distanced themselves, with a CEOE increasingly critical of Pedro Sánchez and his ministers , especially with the representatives of Podemos.
In any case, yesterday the CEOE with its statement stated that it considers it a serious mistake to direct the attention of public opinion against businessmen, "blaming them for certain economic problems, in what we consider to be a very dangerous strategy of a clearly populist nature."
For his part, the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, also asked Pedro Sánchez for his "maximum complicity" to prevent his government partners from "criminalizing" businessmen. Sánchez Llibre already had a controversy a few weeks ago with the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, whom he accused of demonizing businessmen.
It was a reply to Díaz's demonstrations in which he considered that a good part of the inflation was explained "because someone is making a fortune", in reference to the companies.
