The Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, has become this Wednesday the first minister of a Spanish government by speaking in the Congress in Catalan and he has done so to ask for the collaboration of JuntsxCat, investiture partners of the Socialist Executive, to achieve the return to Catalonia of the companies that left during the process and in particular in 2017 after the referendum on October 1.
Hereu has answered in Catalan to a question from Junts deputy Josep Maria Cruset, ex-mayor of Riudoms and ex-president of the Port of Tarragona, in the control session of the Executive in the Congress of Deputies on whether the Government intends to guarantee the return to Catalonia of the companies "that forced them to leave Catalonia in October 2017".
The head of Industry and Tourism has said that the Government "is clearly committed" to the objective of "normalizing the political and social life" of Catalonia and also "the economic one", and to this end the investiture agreement signed by the PSOE and Junts goes to be a “key and very important” piece, always based on “joint work and dialogue.”
"The motivations of companies to invest or establish themselves somewhere or sometimes make the decision to leave have to do with political stability, legal security, the climate that is generated in a society and the incentives that can be given," he said. answered the former socialist mayor of Barcelona, who added that "we are going to work on those factors." "I would not like to deny that in 2017 there were factors that many businessmen have told me that failed at that time, and that is what we want to reverse,” said Hereu, who has . His agreement with us is one more and very important piece to recover normality in Catalonia that will lead us to the economic normality of Catalonia."
The Junts parliamentarian had asked the minister that the central Executive fulfill its commitments to Junts and implement a short-term "plan" to make this return of the companies that left a reality, due to “a State operation that forced the change of headquarters to these companies, with the aim of punishing the economy of our country and eroding the prestige of the Catalan economic fabric.”
The entire dialogue has been held in Catalan by virtue of the agreement reached by Junts and PSOE last August for the constitution of the Congress Board, which remained under the control of the left, and which allowed the use of co-official languages from then on. in the Lower House. Although different deputies have used Catalan, Basque or Galician since then, no minister had yet done so, although the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, had.
