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Valencia

Updated Wednesday, February 28, 2024-14:53

  • Economy The Government creates a public company that will mobilize 20,000 million to invest in technology and with which to enter Telefónica

Surrounded by businessmen, the former president of the Government

José María Aznar

took advantage of this Wednesday in Valencia to harshly attack the economic policy of the Government of

Pedro Sánchez

.

Because, beyond stating as on other occasions that Spain is experiencing "the moment of greatest crisis since the Transition if we remove 23-F", Aznar wanted to warn against an Executive that "singles" and "attacks" businessmen: "Tell me the radical social-communist government that helps businessmen".

Invited by the

Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs

(AVE) chaired by the shipping company

Vicente Boluda

- and which includes, for example, names such as the owner of Mercadona,

Juan Roig

-, Aznar has criticized the Government's interventionism.

And, specifically, the proposal to create a public company with which to take 10% of Telefónica.

"The objective of the Government is the control of companies," the former president of the PP lamented before the AVE assembly, who has criticized that "the country is in other things" due to the toll that Sánchez must pay to "radical minorities" to guarantee governability.

"When Spain needs more capital, freedom to invest and deregulation, the Government's great objective is to enter and control companies," he said before the businessmen's assembly.

Although he has not directly mentioned the

Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT)

, with which the Government intends to mobilize 20,000 million in investment, Aznar has left no room for doubt about his reluctance about the public company with which he presumably wants to consummate entry into Telefónica.

"Now we are discussing how to get into this or another company, they say that we are going to create a fund, that it is not known where the millions come from, but the objective is control of the companies," he insisted, to defend that the majority A time of prosperity was experienced with the liberalization of the Spanish economy.

"That is the environment to which Spain has been brought," lamented Aznar, who has asked for in-depth reflection on issues such as the reform of regional financing, the State pact for water or the future of public education, whose "Failure," in Aznar's words, means that "everyone who has the means to escape from it, escapes."

"Here we do not govern, we are in the Government but we do not govern," according to Aznar.

"The problem is the price we are willing to pay to be in the Government one more day. And that price is paid at our expense," he denounced.

The former president, who has been accompanied by the president of the Generalitat,

Carlos Mazón

, and the mayor of Valencia,

María José Catalá

, has urged to "get out of this political climate", because "the problem is that the longer this situation lasts , the higher the price we will pay."

"The discussion is not whether we are going to pay a price, but how high it will be," he lamented.

Of course, Aznar has not made reference to the latest political crises such as the

Koldo case

- "we must ensure that there are competent people in governments," he said at one point in his speech - although he has once again attacked the

PSOE

.

"A party that has changed its position since the Transition and promotes exclusionary policies before the civil war so that the right does not govern," in his own words.

"I do not know of any government that has put its destiny and its future in the hands of those who want to destroy its country. We must ensure that it ends as poorly as possible, which is as soon as possible," he stated.

He has also referred to Spain's foreign policy, which he has questioned to the extent that it has not supported an ally like the

United States

when required.

For example, in the

Red Sea crisis

in the face of the Houthi attacks: "Spain was asked for help and we have denied it. Those things are noted."

Aznar has also left a final message about the war between

Israel

and

Gaza

: "If Israel does not win this war, we will be in a serious situation because the next war will be on the coasts of Europe."