“The harmful effects of the 2017 PP decree are finally going to be reversed,” proclaimed the parliamentary spokesperson for Junts, Miriam Nogueras. This is the so-called Royal Decree-Law 15/2017, of October 6, on urgent measures regarding the mobility of economic operators within the national territory and which, according to Junts, will be reversed through a reform of the Capital Companies Law agreed with the PSOE.
Unusual, because that decree was prepared by the then minister Luis de Guindosbut backed by his own Pedro Sanchez in October 2017 that ordered its deputies to vote in favor to meet the request of, among others, La Caixa, which needed an agile legal instrument to change headquarters immediately and leave Catalonia to stop a drain on deposits after the referendum. illegal 1-O. Ministers of the current Government such as Margaret Robles e Isabel Rodriguez They voted affirmatively on that decree that the PSOE itself now agrees to change, according to Junts.
How to do it? The authors of the controversial pact did not provide details, although Nogueras did slip that “here we are also talking about economic incentives.” It would be a scandal if, with taxpayer money, banks and companies abandoned one territory of Spain to go to another. Clarifications are urgently needed from the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, who maintained a disturbing silence this Wednesday. Also the new Minister of Economy, Carlos Bodywhich must be guardian before the EU of freedom of establishment and legal security in Spain.
Furthermore, reversing the decree would mean that companies cannot change their headquarters by mere decision of the board of directors, but would have to consult the shareholders’ meetings again, further complicating any transfer.
But this bizarre agreement shows what the obsessions of Carles Puigdemont’s party are and that he has it in his mind to force CaixaBank, Banco Sabadell, Naturgy, Abertis and a long list of companies and banks that fled under his mandate to return to the fold. Catalan. Puigdemont is getting a PSOE on the wire to buy this version when the only thing that can bring these entities back is precisely the abandonment of the radical independence movement and constitutional normality in Catalonia. according to several of them.