• El Prat Common front of Catalan businessmen to demand the expansion of the airport

  • Ada Colau Museum tombs the Hermitage project in the port of Barcelona

Pablo Casado

wanted to recover the speech that he toured throughout Catalonia in a long electoral pre-campaign in which he visited the autonomous community weekly for four months until the appointment with the polls on February 14. Then, the president of the

PP

focused his messages on economic reactivation rather than on issues purely linked to the

procés

. Today, in his speech on the second day of the

Meeting of the Economy Circle

, the

popular

leader

stated that the exit "from the dynamics of paralysis, confrontation and loss of competitiveness" that exists in Catalonia must come from the hand of "a economic shock plan ".

For this reason, Casado has supported from Barcelona the

El Prat airport

expansion project

presented by Aena, which, for environmental reasons, does not have the approval of the Generalitat or various municipalities such as the one headed by

Ada Colau

. "I ask the Administrations for an effort to eliminate any barrier to this vital infrastructure, which will boost tourism and the productive, economic and industrial sector," he said.

Likewise, the leader of the PP has been in favor of opening the

Hermitage museum

projected in the Nueva Bocana of the port of Barcelona, ​​which the City Council has paralyzed. "When a great international museum comes, others come," he said, giving the

Center Pompidou

in Malaga

as an example

.

In his speech, Casado asked to conclude the

Mediterranean Corridor

and, in parallel, to intensify the freight rail corridors and comply with the budgetary commitments for the

Cercanías

train network

. Likewise, the conservative leader has addressed issues such as the reform of

the financing model

or taxation. The president of the PP raises the convenience of designing a new regional financing model and a tax reform in Catalonia that eliminates 15 own taxes and lowers the marginal rates of personal

income tax

, "which generate a differential with Madrid and Andalusia of three points." In addition, he advocates acting now on the

wealth tax

to attract investment.

According to Casado, the PP is the party "that defends autonomic Spain the most against those who want to suppress the Diputaciones, the regional governments or change the State of the autonomies for a confederal one", alluding to the different proposals on territorial and administrative organization of

Citizens

,

Vox

,

United can

and some sectors of the

PSOE

.

FOMENT CRITICISM OF ADA COLAU

In the claim for the expansion of the airport and the installation of the Hermitage in Barcelona, ​​the participants at the table entitled 'Barcelona in the face of global competitiveness' have subsequently coincided. Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of the Foment del Treball employer association; Jaume Collboni, First Deputy Mayor of the Barcelona City Council; Pere Navarro, special delegate of the State in the Consortium of the Free Zone of Barcelona, ​​and Aurora Catà, president of the Barcelona Global association, have expressed the importance that, in their opinion, the reform of El Prat would have for the attraction of talent and the future of the economy of the Catalan capital and its conurbation.

Sánchez Llibre has gone further and, in the presence of his deputy mayor, has criticized Ada Colau for not supporting these two projects and representing "an unkind face of the city", a reproach from which he has excluded the socialist leader and ' number two 'of the municipal government.

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