Garamendi asks the PP to sit down in the negotiation of the income agreement and also talk about taxes, civil servants and pensions

"The income pact is not for a legislature and needs the main opposition party," Antonio Garamendi, president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), has claimed within the Appointment with EL MUNDO cycle organized by this newspaper

Garamendi has asked from the leadership of the bosses "to talk about civil servants and pensions" to approach a country agreement regarding salaries in the face of excessive increases that add more inflationary pressure to prices: "We have not risen from the table", he recalled regarding these conversations between the Government, businessmen and social agents.

"If we talk about an income pact, we have to talk about many more things," said the president of the businessmen in reference to the increases that the Government has guaranteed to pensioners and, this week, to officials.

"We cannot index salaries to inflation.

, because it generates second-round inflation," Garamendi explained to Joaquín Manso, director of EL MUNDO, who has transferred his own questions and those of others to Garamendi on a key day for Spanish politics and economy, in which the agreement of the Executive for new General State Budgets (PGE) has been known and the employment data for the month of September have been known, which seem to corroborate a certain slowdown in the evolution of the labor market.

Nicola Speroni, Francisco Rosell, Stefania Bedogni, Antonio Garamendi, Joaquín Manso and Cuca Gamarra, from left to right this Tuesday in the Appointment with EL MUNDO cycle.

The data of an increase of 17,679 people in the number of unemployed and 29,286 new affiliations "are not bad", has valued the Biscayan businessman, who has warned however: "There will be more closures of companies, although the employment data is not suffers so much", and has focused on small and medium-sized companies within that fabric of the country ("98% of Spanish companies have less than 10 workers").

Words have not been lacking about

, second vice president of the Government, minister of Labor and Social Economy and leader of an incipient political group that apparently does not have any support from Garamendi: "

."

Regarding the attempt to control prices led by Díaz for the food sector, the businessman has been blunt: "For a member of the Government to make a statement about the prices of a sector is very serious. If in any sector we start talking about prices, the police appear and take us into custody. This is called a cartel.

. She says that it is for the big [businessmen] and the little ones have been pissed off."

"A mistake, blame the companies"

The head of the employers' association, representing 4,500 organizations and around 2 million companies, has also sent different messages to Pedro Sánchez in response to the recent accusation of the benefits collected by the Ibex in the middle of the Russian war in Ukraine.

"

. It's a big mistake to want to blame the companies," said Garamendi, who is convinced that "the more businessmen we have, the more employment there will be."

"It is not a good sign for the country.

", he stressed.

"We cannot share the taxes for banks and electricity companies," he stressed about the new taxes sponsored by the Executive, which Garamendi wanted to differentiate from the postulates that emerged in Brussels: "Europe has said to see if something extraordinary can be done about results, not about billing".

Politics and business together

Numerous representatives of politics, the economy and the social fabric of this country have attended this informative breakfast held at the Westin Palace Madrid hotel, such as

, general secretary of the Popular Party;

, former Minister of Employment and Social Security;

, president of the Spanish Banking Association (AEB);

, president of Red Eléctrica;

and

, general secretary of the UGT, with whom Garamendi has had different gestures during his speech.

From Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría to José Luis Yzuel, president of Hospitality in Spain, have been present at this meeting, as well as

, president of Cepyme;

, president of the ATA self-employed association;

and

, president of the Madrid confederation CEIM, among other CEOE vice presidents.

On behalf of Unidad Editorial, Garamendi received Stefania Bedogni and Nicola Speroni, general directors of the group responsible for EL MUNDO.

Francisco Rosell, attached to the Editorial Unit Presidency, has presented Garamendi, whom he has described as "a salmon swimming against the current", although judging by the response to his interventions among the attendees, more than one agrees in the same sense of your journey.

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