"Unit". Above all, Antonio Garamendi, President of CEOE, wants to get this message out today and throughout the week to the Government. It does so backed by all Spanish companies, from the largest to the smallest, in the final stretch of the third negotiation to agree with the Ministry of Labor and the unions an extension to the aid schemes with which it is intended emerge from the crisis caused by the coronavirus, which has already left more than 130,000 companies disappeared and nearly 3.4 million jobs suspended.

Garamendi is presented today to the negotiations that he has been urged to conclude by the head of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, with the public support of the senior staff of the Spanish company called to the Spanish Companies forum leading the future. At his side, Pablo Isla, president of Inditex and one of his greatest supports since just a year ago, the largest Spanish multinational joined CEOE at the hands of Garamendi himself. He will also be escorted by Juan Roig, president of Mercadona, an entrepreneur whose charisma led to him being unofficially proposed to the organization's president in times past, when CEOE Gerardo Díaz Ferrán or Juan Rosell led.

Entrepreneurs want to be heard by the Government, this time in public. The first messages to the Government of Pedro Sánchez will arrive early today from Ana Botín (Santander), Carlos Torres (BBVA), Jordi Gual (CaixaBank), José Ignacio Goirigolzarri (Bankia), Josep Oliú (Banco Sabadell) and José Luis Aguirre (Ibercaja). After a short break, José Ignacio Sánchez Galán (Iberdrola), José Bogas (Endesa), Francisco Reynes (Naturgy), Antonio Brufau (Repsol), José Manuel Entrecanales (Acciona) and Miguel Antoñanzas (Viesgo and Club Español de la Energy). Their voices will convey with their own name the demands of some companies that the market values ​​at close to 250,000 million euros.

Throughout the week, ideas and proposals will be extended with the participation of leaders from sectors such as construction, tourism, automobiles, industry ... The official theme is the reconstruction of the economy after the coronavirus, the opportunity to reform the Spanish economic model and it is unlikely that they will go into the details of the negotiation that CEOE is carrying out with Díaz and the unions, although they will be very present at the social dialogue tables and have led to agreements in recent months.

Discarded the recovery in V, the idea that the reconstruction of the economy will take years to take place is unanimous and businessmen feel that in this third negotiation to extend the ERTE there is much at stake. They already had it in mind last May. On the eve of the agreement solemnly signed by Sánchez with employers and unions, Garamendi issued clear warnings that revealed the climate of tension in the business world, indicating that CEOE would not agree to an extension under impossible conditions. "The government will not have the support of businessmen if there are clauses that make it impossible for ERTEs to function," he said, noting that the government would always be empowered to legislate, "but it would be mistaken."

Finally, CEOE and Cepyme signed the extension on May 11, admitting that "they had left some hairs in the cat flap, like everyone else." The agreement led some organizations belonging to CEOE such as the Catalan Foment del Traball or representatives of tourism companies or car dealers to publicly criticize the agreement. Today, the voices of the Spanish private sector staff and the demonstration of unity of the forum convened by Garamendi will make the warnings more tangible about the extent to which the Government can count on businessmen to design a reconstruction plan than within these Organizations would be rejected as "ideologized".

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