The announcement of the closure of the plant Nissan in Barcelona it has provoked a torrent of political reactions in the form of reproaches, a rain of accusations that can only go so far. The government, the Catalan executive and the Barcelona’s town hall have put the focus on the company, the PP blames the central government for its bad management of the pandemic crisis and it coincides with the scolding of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, and from Catalonia the opposition sees it as sequel to ‘procés’.
The first reactions to the announcement of the closure of the factory has come from the authorities. The Ministry of Industry that pilots Reyes Maroto He recalled that the continuity of the plant “is possible”, as stated in the feasibility plan presented by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism a few months ago in collaboration with the Generalitat, the Barcelona City Council and the Consortium of the Free Trade Zone of Barcelona. The ministry highlights that continuity “makes economic sense”For the Japanese company, since the cost of closing the factory could exceed 1,000 million euros, while the award of an electric model would require 300 million euros.
The PP disfigures the Government that does not generate confidence and that “its ERTE” have become “EREs
Two other ministers have joined the voice of Industry. On the one hand, the third vice-president of the Government and minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, who in statements to TVE has shown his discomfort over this decision and has assured that the Executive will work to channel this process and seek an “alternative” solution. And on the other the Foreign Minister, Arancha González Laya, which in RNE has assured that “all kinds of supports, accompaniments, aid and plans” have been offered to try to avoid the closure. Laya has alleged that the company has a plan to “recentralize its activities regardless of what European governments have been able to offer.”
But perhaps the most critical words have come from the Ministry of Business of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Àngels Chacón, who has warned on TV3 that the Govern will not make it easy for Nissan to leave Barcelona and has accused the Japanese of “disloyalty” and “contempt” for her lack of dialogue, because she has not even responded to the plan that presented at the beginning of the year.
“It cannot be said that the administrations have not tried it and have been on the side of the company,” said the consellera, who stressed that they offered Nissan to finance the plan with 100 million euros, out of the total 300 million that it involved. . In addition, it has revealed that in the last 12 years 25 million public money has been invested in the plant and that another aid of 6 million euros had been pending.
Puigdemont reproaches Sánchez that “it seems evident that the interest he put into fighting on October 1 did not put him to save Nissan”
In the same vein, the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, which has emphasized that the company has “a responsibility”. “Nissan has been here a long time, has made great benefits, has received public aid and can not announce the closure as if nothing,” he said. For all these reasons, “conversations must be redirected” to propose other solutions on the table, he has bet, because “Nissan will be wrong if it does not take the opportunity to strengthen ties with an industrial area with a long history.”
But in politics there is no truce and whoever is in the opposition, in Catalonia or Madrid, uses this matter for political wear and tear. In Catalonia, while the president Quim Torra He called his emergency executive to analyze the situation after the announcement of Nissan, the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, has blamed the closure on the insufficient “interest” of Pedro Sánchez in the matter.
In a comment posted on Twitter, Puigdemont He has considered the closure as “a very hard blow for thousands of families and businesses, for the entire country”, but he regretted that Sánchez “believed that he solved it with a conversation in Davos, and boasted about it”, but “it seems evident that the interest that he put into fighting on October 1 did not put him to save Nissan ”, has made him ugly.
Also from Catalonia, Ciutadans has used the matter to use it as a scourge against the Govern. The spokeswoman at the Parlemant, Lorena Roldán, has been “concerned about the future of workers and industry in Catalonia. Not like Colau and company, denying the sector, “he has differentiated, after which he has said to hope that” separatism does not give to re-sow chaos “because” the last thing we need now is that nobody wants to invest here. “
The darts of the opposition to Sánchez in Madrid have not been made wait. From the PP, the general secretary Teodoro García Egea, has used the bad news to discredit the government’s management in the face of the health crisis. In statements to Telecinco, the leader has reproached the coalition Executive that “their ERTEs” have become “EREs”, and that “while Marlaska interferes and Churches dedicates themselves to lying in Parliament, companies flee Spain because Spain and the government does not build trust. ” Also in a previous interview on Onda Madrid, Egea assured that these jobs have been “directly destroyed by the Government with its irresponsibilities.”
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