Businessmen from all over Spain demand the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, to immediately end the chaos on the AP-7 motorway on the border with France in the face of the economic damage it is producing. " The Spanish Confederation of Transport and Goods asks the Government to act urgently before the blockade in the AP-7, " said this business association in a statement seconded by the Association of Manufacturers and Distributors AECOC, to which belong groups of the Mercadona, Coca-Cola, Carrefour and El Corte Inglés dimension. According to a statement from the AECOC, this important association "adds to the outrage expressed by other organizations such as the Spanish Confederation of Freight Transport (CETM), and denounces the impact on the activity of carriers that have this type of claiming actions" . "We share the feelings and discomfort of carriers in a situation in which loaders are also victims," ​​said AECOC supply chain manager Alejandro Sánchez, who recalled that more than 10,000 trucks per direction cross the road Jonquera border daily. "La Jonquera is an essential way for the competitiveness of companies, to guarantee service to the industry and the supply of products to citizens," he added.

For his part, the president of the main Catalan employer Foment, Josep Sanchez Llibre , has had a greater impact on the role of the Generalitat. In its statement, it highlights "the need for a public statement from the Generalitat of Catalonia to facilitate the end of the protests, without harming the legitimate right to mobilization." Sanchez Llibre has already requested in private meetings Torra to expressly condemn this type of protests that deteriorate the Catalan economy. The response of the president of the Generalitat, as published by THE WORLD on Sunday, is to wash your hands: "The fault is Madrid."

According to the CETM, it is not a problem only of the Generalitat, but of the central Government. "The French Government has already warned that it will not allow for excesses or blockages at its border and that it will use the necessary measures for this. Why not here? What is the purpose of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, which It is not able to implement joint measures with the French Government that allow free cross-border movement between both countries? ", criticizes in its official statement.

"Given the prospect that this situation is repeated until November 13, as announced by the conveners, AECOC expresses its concern about the repetition of a blockade that is occurring with an alarming frequency in La Jonquera," adds this association to which El Corte Inglés or Nestlé also belongs, among others.

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