The mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcalahe has insisted – after knowing that the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) authorizes the BBVA OPA on Banco Sabadell – in «that the network of workshops and the templates as a guarantee of the service to the customers and users of both banking entities, and that the back Financial to small and medium enterprises »Alicante.
He also recalled the link of the Catalan entity with the main theater, with its stable financing and also with the pending rehabilitation project.
The decision on the absorption by the BBVA still depends on the government, although in the eyes of the Mayor Alicante, the position favorable of the CNMV “It supposes a more step towards the final resolution of the operation”, so the City Council “continues to demand the same thing that has demanded from the beginning,” that is,
«All this maintaining as a symbol of roots and commitment to the territory sponsorship and support to the Main Theater from Alicante, not only supporting the best possible programming, but rehabilitación Integral of the building and its facilities, process in which we are currently, and that necessarily the winner “of said process” must support and respect. “
The first mayor has remarked that «it will now be the responsibility of the Government to fulfillconditions Like the ones we claim, for us essential, in the event that it resolves favorably ».
«We will be very aware of this, because the commitment to our land is above all and therefore no bank operation must go to harm both the jobs In Alicante, as well as Users and clients of these entities, ”said the Alicante Mayor.
And it has ended: “Now the ball is on the roof of the Government of Spain, to which we ask that the measures be demanded to prosper the OPA and include the ones we are demanding from Alicante for the network, for the workforce and for the financing of SMEs.”
“Timely decisions will be made”
Asked about it, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morantwhich has participated this Thursday in the massive pilgrimage of Santa Faz – in a record edition with about 350,000 pilgrims and the notorious absence of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón – has assured that “the timely decisions to protect that there are competition in our country and safeguard, as always, the rights of citizenship ».
Also present in the manifestation of May 1, Morant has considered that “it is not an issue of opinions,” the outcome of this financial merger operation between the two banks.
«It is an issue of knowing that the Government of Spain is concerned, that such an important sector ends monopolized and that competition is prevented, that this goes against clients and citizens »because it is” their rights, “has argued.
“Pending” of the outcome
For her part, the first vice president and Minister of Social Services, Equality and Housing and spokesman of the Consell, Susana waiterhas pledged that the Valencian government, “as always”, will be “defending the interests of the Valencian Community and the workers” in the BBVA OPA process to Banco Sabadell.
In these terms, a waiter has manifested in statements to the media in Alicante, where he has attended the pilgrim of the Holy Faz of 2025
The first and spokesperson of the Consell has affirmed that the ‘president’ of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón“He has been very earring from the beginning of this whole process ». «We will continue to defend those workers that reside, who live and work in this community, and there we will be, ”he added.
Waiter added that on May 1, date on which Labor Day is commemorated, the Generalitat “remembers workers.” “We do not need a banner to remember them and we will continue to do so in these circumstances,” he concluded.
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