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Some senior executives in the country have been promoting Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría's candidacy for La Moncloa for months as an alternative to Mariano Rajoy. These maneuvers, addressed in a very discreet manner, are going to stop abruptly after the agreement sealed by the VIP businessmen at the last meeting of the Council for Competitiveness.
According to sources familiar with this meeting, to which El Confidencial Digital has had access , one of the main decisions made this Tuesday by the IBEX executives who met at the Telefónica headquarters is that they are going to stop promoting the vice president as replacement.
As reported in this confidential report, the most important businessmen in the country considered until a few weeks ago that achange of leader in the Popular Party was necessary to face the next general elections with guarantees.
In his opinion, Mariano Rajoy was an obstacle to resolving the foreseeable situation of instability that Spain is heading towards after the elections at the end of the year. And the efforts began that have now been stopped. They have come to the conclusion that “there is no longer time” for a change of candidate. They privately acknowledge that “they have no choice but to accept it with resignation.”
The VIP businessmen were betting on a person who would give them guarantees that, at the time, they could reach State pacts that would guarantee a two-party system that has allowed the long political and financial stability experienced in Spain for more than thirty years, and that is behind of Denmark Mobile Number List the economic recovery that the country is now experiencing.The president, due to his characteristics and idiosyncrasies, was not the most appropriate person . The recipe of the big IBEX was for a new candidate for La Moncloa, by promoting Rajoy's replacement at the head of the PP.Refrain from commenting on the political situationAs El Confidencial Digital has learned , from sources aware of these movements, presidents and CEOs of large Spanish multinationals were until now in contact to promote this change.
The maneuvers have now been stopped at the proposal of the Catalan representation in the Business Council for Competitiveness (CEC) and were intensely debated at the meeting of the leaders of the 17 main companies in the country.
Isidro Fainé (CaixaBank), Antonio Brufau (Repsol) - although he did not attend - and Isak Andic (Mango), among others, support a trend in favor of large businessmen refraining at this time from making statements about the political situation.
We are not dedicated to politics . In Catalonia we were tired of calling and meeting privately with Rajoy and Artur Mas to encourage them to sit down and talk and convey proposals to unblock the Catalan problem. They didn't pay attention and we decided to let it be. We have stopped doing it ,” defended one of them.
Another of the Barcelona executives joined this thesis. He confirmed that the maneuver has worked and the situation is now “ much calmer in Catalonia .” He proposed applying this same “strategy of silence and prudence” at the national level.They assume that getting into politics harms them
According to the sources consulted, the majority of the CEC representatives, such as César Alierta , Ignacio Sánchez Galán , Florentino Pérez or Francisco González (although he did not attend), joined the initiative defended by the Catalan members of the club.
Many of the IBEX majors privately admit that they are fed up with “no attention being paid to us.” Faced with this scenario, they have decided to get out of the way and stop warning of the dangers of the rise of populism in Spain: “Politicians will have to agree and reach agreements that they consider appropriate,” said one of those present.
They concluded during lunch at Telefónica's headquarters that getting involved in political affairs harms them and the image of their companies . “We run the risk that people will end up blaming us for saying that, if we talk so much about politics, we like to intervene and we know everything, we should run for office,” added another of the directors.
“The role of the businessman has to be to promote his business, not to be a politician . So they will have to find the solution,” several of the attendees agreed.
According to sources familiar with this meeting, to which El Confidencial Digital has had access , one of the main decisions made this Tuesday by the IBEX executives who met at the Telefónica headquarters is that they are going to stop promoting the vice president as replacement.
As reported in this confidential report, the most important businessmen in the country considered until a few weeks ago that achange of leader in the Popular Party was necessary to face the next general elections with guarantees.
In his opinion, Mariano Rajoy was an obstacle to resolving the foreseeable situation of instability that Spain is heading towards after the elections at the end of the year. And the efforts began that have now been stopped. They have come to the conclusion that “there is no longer time” for a change of candidate. They privately acknowledge that “they have no choice but to accept it with resignation.”
The VIP businessmen were betting on a person who would give them guarantees that, at the time, they could reach State pacts that would guarantee a two-party system that has allowed the long political and financial stability experienced in Spain for more than thirty years, and that is behind of Denmark Mobile Number List the economic recovery that the country is now experiencing.The president, due to his characteristics and idiosyncrasies, was not the most appropriate person . The recipe of the big IBEX was for a new candidate for La Moncloa, by promoting Rajoy's replacement at the head of the PP.Refrain from commenting on the political situationAs El Confidencial Digital has learned , from sources aware of these movements, presidents and CEOs of large Spanish multinationals were until now in contact to promote this change.
The maneuvers have now been stopped at the proposal of the Catalan representation in the Business Council for Competitiveness (CEC) and were intensely debated at the meeting of the leaders of the 17 main companies in the country.
Isidro Fainé (CaixaBank), Antonio Brufau (Repsol) - although he did not attend - and Isak Andic (Mango), among others, support a trend in favor of large businessmen refraining at this time from making statements about the political situation.
We are not dedicated to politics . In Catalonia we were tired of calling and meeting privately with Rajoy and Artur Mas to encourage them to sit down and talk and convey proposals to unblock the Catalan problem. They didn't pay attention and we decided to let it be. We have stopped doing it ,” defended one of them.
Another of the Barcelona executives joined this thesis. He confirmed that the maneuver has worked and the situation is now “ much calmer in Catalonia .” He proposed applying this same “strategy of silence and prudence” at the national level.They assume that getting into politics harms them
According to the sources consulted, the majority of the CEC representatives, such as César Alierta , Ignacio Sánchez Galán , Florentino Pérez or Francisco González (although he did not attend), joined the initiative defended by the Catalan members of the club.
Many of the IBEX majors privately admit that they are fed up with “no attention being paid to us.” Faced with this scenario, they have decided to get out of the way and stop warning of the dangers of the rise of populism in Spain: “Politicians will have to agree and reach agreements that they consider appropriate,” said one of those present.
They concluded during lunch at Telefónica's headquarters that getting involved in political affairs harms them and the image of their companies . “We run the risk that people will end up blaming us for saying that, if we talk so much about politics, we like to intervene and we know everything, we should run for office,” added another of the directors.
“The role of the businessman has to be to promote his business, not to be a politician . So they will have to find the solution,” several of the attendees agreed.