Sánchez asks businessmen "the broadest possible agreements" to face the consequences of inflation

Pedro Sánchez has attended the

awards this morning

with the proposal to reopen with businessmen the path of agreements that support their economic measures to tackle the consequences that the war in Ukraine is having, fundamentally an inflation out of control.

Sánchez's latest proposal to businessmen was launched last month, demanding an

.

Neither employers nor unions see this agreement as likely.

The president has described rising inflation and rising prices as the main threats caused by the war.

"The economy has suffered a new blow. Energy costs have skyrocketed. The most worrying thing is that it is not known how long the situation will last and

, he pointed out as a reason to ask business representatives " agreements as wide as possible", agreements that continue the ten already reached so far with the social agents.

The president recalled the protection provided to companies during the pandemic and the extraordinary measures to cut

.

He has also reviewed the rain of millions involved in the recovery plan financed by the European Union and the reforms undertaken and to be undertaken.

Without making explicit reference to the rents pact he proposed, he has invoked the "spirit of consensus."

But, at least at this point, everything seems to indicate that the discourse is empty.

because there are no proposed measures for an income pact and there is some concern about the interventionism that limiting benefits would mean.

, president of Cepyme, thanked Sánchez for his presence at the employer's association awards and then asked him to put companies at the center of the economic measures that he proposes, especially in terms of labor and tax costs.

"There is room to lower fiscal pressure and the inefficiency of government spending amounts to 60,000 million euros: a courageous and consensual reform would allow that money to be applied to social spending and investment," Cuerva has launched.

The president of the employers' association of SMEs, known for presenting his arguments without euphemisms, has asked Sánchez and the also present

for greater firmness in the course of the reforms that are being faced.

Small and medium-sized Spanish companies need, he has warned, "certainty and reforms based on consensus that provide legal certainty and that the rules of the game will not be changed by parliamentary arithmetic."

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