The economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, has confirmed that the Government will not touch on short-term labor reform without first talking to CEOE and has ruled out one of the key points of the Podemos program consisting of converting Bankia into public banking.

In his appearance before the Economy Commission of the Congress of Deputies, he has limited the Government's legislative action in the short term on labor matters to limit the legal possibility of firing workers on medical leave, which is not part of the 2012 labor reform. the only thing he has described as "urgent."

Instead, he affirmed that for the rest of the changes, we must wait for the social dialogue "to achieve the necessary balance between the business interests and the workers' representatives", clearly indicating that he wants to prevent any regulatory modification from being unbalanced in against the employer CEOE, despite what was widely promised in the past by PSOE and Podemos. And the promised change of the Workers' Statute is further to incorporate the robotization and digitalization that Calviño defends that we must face "calmly" and after a commission of experts is pronounced. He did not mention in his long appearance the mania promise to "repeal the most harmful aspects" of the labor reform.

Regarding public banking, he has been in favor of reinforcing the role of the Official Credit Institute (ICO), but has completely left aside the entity chaired by José Ignacio Goirigolzarri.

"Our position is very clear: Bankia is an economic operator managed with absolutely private criteria , " he said before the Economic Commission in the Congress of Deputies. It has described the current majority participation of the State in the bank as "an inheritance that we drag" and has opted for its slow privatization. "Our intention in maximizing the recovery of aid and that is why we must not act in a hurry," he stressed.

Calviño has defended before the deputies the new path of deficit and has promised that in this legislature 1.2 million jobs will be created , between 2020 and 2023 in clear slowdown with respect to the 970,000 created in only the last two years 2018 and 2019 .

Regarding public debt, he claimed that in the last two years he has dropped 2.5 points until closing 2019 "below 96%" and said that the relaxation in the deficit path "is an exercise in realism."

"In summary, our Government action will be directed towards the objective of combining inclusive growth and sustainability of public accounts. Because maintaining economic growth and job creation is the absolute priority for this Government, because only from that We can think of the rest of the reforms that the country needs, "she said.

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