Garamendi is re-elected president of the CEOE with the challenge of negotiating the rise of the SMI and the pension reform in a month

Antonio Garamendi

has been re-elected this Wednesday

of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (

) for a second term of four years and will have to face important negotiations with the Government and the unions between now and the end of the year, such as the one related to the increase of the

in 2023 and the second part of the

reform .

The 64-year-old from Biscay, who has been at the head of the business association since he replaced

started as a favorite in this electoral process and has prevailed over his rival,

, vice president of the Catalan employers' association

In total,

of which

Guinda has obtained 87 votes (13.5%), while 14 votes have been blank and there have been 8 invalid votes.

His victory is interpreted as a majority support of the

that make up the employers in the spirit of Garamendi, who in the last four years has led many

in the framework of

among which the

in December of last year.

Once the elections are resolved, social dialogue sources hope that in the remainder of the year

with the Ministry of Social Security will be resumed with intensity to complete the second part of the

reform -which will foreseeably include an increase in the bases contribution maximums and a modification of the calculation period for the public pension-, the table with the Ministry of Labor on the

and the employer-union bilateral negotiations on the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (

), which should make some recommendations on salary increases.

The Ministry of Economy, for its part, could now also take advantage of the opportunity to resume dialogue on a

Even so,

in the negotiations point out that if

so far in these matters ,

, but rather, in some aspects, it is the

that have hindered the negotiations .

.

This is the case of the pension reform, in which there are discrepancies between the ministries of Yolanda Díaz and José Luis Escrivá about what is the best proposal to adapt the calculation period to calculate the pension to current working lives, knowledgeable sources point out.

This reform is the one that is most urgent for the Executive, since

to have it approved before

in Component 30 of the Recovery Plan and, in case of not meeting that milestone, it will face the possible ' penalty' of receiving a partial payment in the next disbursement of Recovery Mechanism funds.

Other negotiations in sight are the one related to the

to improve active employment policies, or the

The CEOE elections were held at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid and all the members of the employer's association were called to the polls, who could deposit a maximum of

- there are members who can deposit more than one vote when representing different organizations-

The votes - which have been individual and secret - have been deposited in

placed on the stage of the Auditorium chamber room between 10 and half past one.

From that moment on, the

and, subsequently, the electoral polling station has been in charge of verifying the definitive count.

Pilar González de Frutos

, the president of Unespa -the insurance employers' association-;

, from Confemetal, and

from Foment, have been the members who have presided over the polling station, as both candidates agreed on Tuesday afternoon.

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