• Interview with Carlos Tavares "The Government runs the risk of losing the Spanish success of 30 years with the automobile"

The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has branded

the consortium of the central government with Seat-Volkswagen and Iberdrola to activate the first battery factory in Spain as "enormous cacicada".

Feijóo has assured

that he cannot be "more in agreement" with "everything" said

by

the CEO of Stellantis,

Carlos Tavares,

in the interview published by EL MUNDO

, in relation to the implementation of the electric car, its guidelines and terms of agreement with European guidelines.

"Mr. Tavares put the truth on the table, that the sector knows more about the automotive sector than politicians", the Galician president has sentenced, in relation to the position expressed by Tavares in an interview published by this newspaper.

The importance of

Stellantis Vigo

for the Galician industrial fabric must be taken into account.

Last year the Galician factory was the one that manufactured the most vehicles in Spain.

The Galician plant closed with

495,000 units,

which means only 2,000 fewer cars than in 2020. The good performance of the light vans it makes for the Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Toyota brands, in addition to the Peugeot 2008, have made this center have dodged the chip crisis.

Carlos

Tavares

hinted that Stellantis "is very open to discussing with the Spanish Government" the aid of the recovery plan

"but for the moment, the Executive has not contacted us, far from it."

The General Secretary of Industry, Raül Blanco, responded to this on behalf of the Government, with

"surprise"

because

they have maintained contacts with Stellantis to ask them for a battery factory.

Blanco explained that Stellantis has prioritized installing battery plants in France and Germany and is studying implant one from this year in Italy because "that is where it has its headquarters".

emission restrictions

The president of the Junta de Galicia, in statements collected by Europa Press, stated that

"it is surprising that a baker is told how to make bread";

saying that it seems "very good" that "the characteristics of the emissions" be determined, but not that the Government "impose a single system, with a single deadline", that could call into question a strategic industry for Spain and in a way significant for Galicia.

In a veiled way, in the criticism of the president of the Junta de Galicia, there is the strategy of the Popular Party to prosecute the alleged

favorable treatment of the Autonomous Communities and municipalities governed by the Government partners in the award of aid

from European funds . And in this case, Seat has its largest factory in Martorell (Barcelona) where the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, supported by JxCAT, governs, and Volkswagen has it in Navarra, where the PSOE governs with Geroa Bai, Podemos and Izquierda-Ezkerra.

Feijóo recalled that the automotive sector is "in a critical situation" both due to the pandemic and the semiconductor shortage crisis, so it should not be "played with".

"If the automotive industry falls, Galicia would have a first-rate economic problem,"

he warned.

Feijóo questioned whether the deadlines can be met, with what level of "pollution" it will be done and whether the costs to acquire vehicles with the new electric technology will be acceptable to consumers.

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