The intention of the pro-independence leaders is to control the maximum possible of institutions and, among them, those that have the economic power
The intention of the 'indepes' is to control the
maximum possible of institutions and, among them, those that have the economic
power. In the Fira of Barcelona, the pro-independence front won the
presidency by putting Pau Relats in
it, thanks to the passivity of the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, strategically aligned with the independence
movement. In the month of May it will be the turn of the chambers of commerce, to
which the pro-independence front wants to gain access just to start with its ideological
sieve in the institution.
At the moment, four candidacies are outlined in
order to relieve Miquel Valls in the
presidency of the Chamber of Commerce of
Barcelona, the most powerful and a true bastion of economic power. Among
the candidates aspiring to the presidency, at the moment, are the financier Carles Tusquets, who would represent
the line favoring most continuity; Ramon
Masià; businessman Josep Maria
Torres, considered the candidate of the Pimec; and, possibly, Enric Crous, former director general of
Damm and Cacaolat, who could pick up the interest of the pro-independence front
and propose himself with their support, although nothing is clear yet, because
he keeps emphasizing his own path: that 'these are business elections, not political'.
However, the ideological background is
what it is.
Pure and hard revenge
The intention of the CCN - and, consequently, of
the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), the entity that both Carles Puigdemont and Quim
Torra use to mobilize society - is
to purge the companies that moved their headquarters from Barcelona to other
places in Spain and, in return, reward multinationals that invested in
Catalonia in recent months with strategic positions in the Catalan chambers.
The ultra pro-independence side does not hide.
"One of the main objectives of this candidacy is to exclude from the
governing bodies of the chambers of commerce those companies that have moved
their headquarters out of Catalonia and to invite foreign companies that have
invested in our country," openly recognizes the CCN. In other words, those who have left since September 2017
will be erased from the map.
It is not a new strategy, but it is dangerous: what
the independence movement is demonstrating through the CCN and the ANC is that having moved the headquarters to other
parts of Spain is a betrayal and that it will not be forgiven. It is more:
it is a direct threat to expel from the Catalan institutions such established
companies (and which, despite having moved their headquarters, continue to have
an important labor presence in Catalonia) such as Banco Sabadell, La Caixa, Applus, Grupo Indukern, Allainz , MRW, Axa, Agbar, Planet Group, Codorniu,
Abertis, Cellnex, Grupo Gallo, Cementos Molins, San Miguel beers, Catalana
Occidente, Hotusa, Pirelli, Panasonic or Bimbo.
Despite the efforts of the Catalan public powers to
hide this strategy, the CCN attacks everything that does not support the
independence movement. Its intention is "to engage the Chambers with the
Republic and fiscal sovereignty", as well as "to sever our economy
from the Ibex 35". Likewise, they intend to promote the 'Catalonia' brand
and restrict the 'Barcelona' brand to companies that have their "social
and fiscal headquarters" in that city. They also want to "recover
their own banking system and the savings bank system, establish strategic
alliances with economic agents in the United Kingdom and the
Eurosunbelt region", veto large corporations (which does not fit with
giving them perks if they have invested in Catalonia) and "encourage the
granting of public works to companies with Catalan capital". To clarify
the situation: force a 'Catexit' allying with the English outside of the EU,
and limiting the pie of public money to the group of lifelong friends.
Politicization of the Chambers of Commerce
In a communication a couple of weeks ago, the
pro-independence activists highlighted that they were committed "to invite foreign companies that have
invested in Catalonia over the past few years to take part in the governing
bodies of the Chambers, in replacement of companies that have recently moved
their headquarters outside of Catalonia". Now they have given a turn of
the screw: it is added the fact that, according to what was published 'La
Vanguardia', the ANC itself has prepared a document in which it denounces that
the Spanish Ministry of Industry tries to "control once again the 13 Chambers
of Catalonia" and, therefore, the ANC is determined to transform the
unionist boards of these organisms or professional bodies of Catalonia into
republican boards.
A full roundup, then, of intervened and
‘nationalized’ economy. In its last communication, the CCN states that it wants
to "eradicate the sale of positions in the governing bodies",
"rationalize the internal structure and avoid presidentialism" and
"exclude from the governing bodies those companies that have transferred
their headquarters outside of Catalonia as well as and open them to companies
that have invested here". It is, in other words, the politicization of the
Chambers of Commerce raised to the
maximum power.
This means leaving out of the decision-making
bodies the most powerful companies in Catalonia for the mere fact of not having
supported the independence movement. Large corporations with thousands of
workers working in Catalonia will be deprived of their right to be present in
the decision-making bodies of the Chambers. The attempts from this newspaper to
obtain an official version of the situation were unsuccessful. But sources
close to the CCN explain to El Confidencial that the big companies that moved
their headquarters "already have representation in other Chambers of the state,
in the demarcations where they have their headquarters, so that their
representativeness is not diminished by that decision". But these sources
do not explain why other foreign
companies, which also have their headquarters in other areas, can indeed be present in the organs of the Catalan
Chambers.
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