CEOE leader sues government for “ongoing attacks” on businessmen and denounces “slander campaign”
The chairman of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, defended himself this Tuesday against criticism of his salary of 380,000 euros, both from the Executive and from a sector within the employers’ organization itself, with a comparison. “Forgive the example, but this is like a rape and they say the girl was wearing a miniskirt. I do not accept an octopus as a pet,” said the Basque businessman.
This is how he answered in televised statements when asked about the statements of the president of the Confederation of Employers of Pontevedra (CEP), Jorge Cebreiros, who said this Tuesday that Garamendi’s salary does not seem “sensitive” to him and warned that this situation can “complicate” the life of the business class.
From Podemos, they quickly censored these words by Garamendi, who described them as “hideous”, “miserable” and “ruinous”, as stated by the purple formation’s co-spokesman, Pablo Fernández,
The war between the government and businessmen intensifies in a year with a double electoral nomination. The chairman of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, is visibly annoyed by the management’s persistent criticism of employers: for not sitting down to negotiate the minimum wage, for not wanting to increase it, for getting up from the collective bargaining table, for the increase in salary … For this reason, he accused the government of launching a “discredit campaign” to the business world and the “ongoing attack” by certain members of the executive branch.
“That the government sends messages of division seems to me very serious. He blames himself with his finger and now it has hit me, because I am alone “he denounced, before the controversy that arose for receiving a salary of more than 380,000 euros and for the regularization of his situation by another employee of to become the employer , until now it worked as a freelancer.
The Basque businessman denied that his salary had been increased by 9% this year, as some media suggest, he pointed out that the increase for 2023 is 3%, the same as the rest of the CEOE employees, and denied that he was forced to regularize their employment situation.
“It’s wrong. I don’t have to arrange anything at all. In Spain there are more than 200,000 people like me, who have to pay double the treasury. I am self-employed and I will remain so because businessmen cannot enter the General Regime,” he stressed. , while emphasizing that “it’s not 400,000 euros and I didn’t raise 9% because it’s not me, this is a matter for a private body”.
Source: La Verdad
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