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Felipe VI

defended this Monday stability and legal certainty as the basis for generating growth and offering certainty to investments, while the President of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonès

, has advocated for "making possible that what is done in Scotland is possible in Catalonia ".

The King has chaired in

Barcelona

the gala for the delivery of the

XIV Carles Ferrer Salat awards

, organized by the Foment del Treball employer association at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), in an event in which the Minister of Transport also participated ,

Raquel Sánchez

, and the mayor of the Catalan capital,

Ada Colau

, among others.

Aragonès and Colau have declined to participate in the reception of the head of state, although they have greeted each other at the cocktail party prior to dinner, where they have shared a table.

The Catalan president came to greet the king and spoke with him for a few seconds before the dinner took place, a dialogue that was also joined by the president of Foment,

Josep Sánchez Llibre

.

Moments later Colau made an appearance, who also greeted those present before starting a conversation with Aragonès and Minister Raquel Sánchez, while the monarch continued his conversation with Sánchez Llibre and other guests.

Already in the parliaments prior to the dinner, Felipe VI has made a call to

generate "a stable context"

to leave behind the "hard tests" that, in his opinion, there have been in the last decade.

Among them, Don Felipe has cited the 2008 crisis and the effects of the pandemic, without mentioning the independence process.

"Faced with this difficult reality, it is essential to always strengthen the framework of stability, certainty and trust that developed economies demand," he recommended in a speech, in which he has included several fragments in Catalan.

Raquel Sánchez has joined the calls for dialogue, who has been convinced that the strategy undertaken by the president,

Pedro Sánchez

, since his arrival in Moncloa "is bearing fruit" and, in the case of Catalonia, has allowed "you breathe a different atmosphere than three years ago."

"Dialogue must be put into practice with facts and honesty. We may not achieve our objectives immediately, but, in itself, it is already a good result. When two turn their backs at each step they take, they are further away. On the other hand, when we sit at a table, separated by many differences, but sitting facing each other, we open up the possibility of understanding, "Sánchez explained.

In the opinion of the Minister of Transport, "Spain does better when Catalonia is doing well and vice versa as well."

Aragonès, in turn, has opted to

continue "a negotiation process in which each party must legitimately defend its position

.

"

That of the Generalitat, he pointed out, is "widely known" and goes through amnesty and a self-determination referendum, that is, "to make it possible for what is done in Scotland to be possible in Catalonia."

"It is important that the negotiation process continues," he assured, because the "stability" required by any political system "is not synonymous with immobility but rather with advancing and adapting the institutions" to the "aspirations" of each society.

Colau, on the other hand, has said that "dialogue is the best way to reach agreements and find solutions", and as proof of this he has cited the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

, of whom he has highlighted his commitment to the social agreement.

The mayoress has also celebrated the approval of both state and Catalan budgets, as well as those of the city of Barcelona, ​​which has been possible thanks to the fact that partisanship has been put aside.

The president of Foment del Treball,

Josep Sánchez Llibre

, has also advocated recovering the "optimism" and "ambition" that characterized Olympic Barcelona and fleeing from the "kind of autarky" proposed by those who bet on degrowth.

At the same time, the president of the La Caixa Banking Foundation,

Isidre Fainé

, said that he felt "always captivated by the combination of work and social work" that characterizes the La Caixa group, today "the first savings bank in the free world".

Outside the facilities, the independence entity ANC has projected on the Venetian towers of Plaza España a portrait of the king upside down and a message that read "out with the occupying forces."

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