“That the Government does not know a transcendent fact of companies in my country, of course it worries me.” The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has criticized the Executive of Pedro Sánchez for having been left out of the game before the surprising announcement of the purchase of 9.9% of the shares of Telefónica by the Saudi state telecommunications group STC Groupfor 2,100 million euros.
Asked, in an interview in Antenna 3for the information you have published THE WORLD about how the purchase was forged outside the Executive, due to “terror of leaks”, Feijóo has assured that “what surprises everyone is that the Government of spain don’t find out what happens in the main companies in Spain”.
And he was not only referring to Telefónica, but “also to Ferrovial”, which last April announced the transfer of its headquarters to Netherlands. “That they do not find out about Ferrovial or what is happening with the shareholders of Telefónica is evident that worries me, because nobody considers the Government a valid interlocutor to speak with,” Feijóo has made ugly.
Regarding the operation itself, he has assured that he hopes “this shareholding does not entail any problem for the staff and for the Spanishness of Telefónica”. “But we are going to see what happens in the next few days”, he wanted to intervene, out of prudence.
The Saudi state telecommunications group STC Group prepared for more than six months with its bankers and lawyers in offices of London y Madrid entry into Telefónica and only notified the Government when it had already become the operator’s leading shareholder with 4.9%. This was confirmed to this newspaper by sources close to the Arab giant familiar with the operation.