MADRID, 2 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Madrid Business Confederation (CEIM) and first vice president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), Miguel Garrido, has assured that companies “are not very concerned” about the changes in the CEOE electoral process.
“Nor is it an issue that I think the companies we represent are very concerned about, the statutes by which the CEOE is governed and its electoral processes. I don’t think it is an issue of interest to the companies either, as is any tax, labor, regulatory, etc. regulations”, Garrido pointed out in an interview with Europa Press.
The CEOE will vote on July 19 for the ratification of some changes in its electoral process, among them, eliminating the limitation to two mandates for the president of the confederation, as well as the need to present more guarantees to reach the Presidency of the employers, since Compared to the current 20, 80 will be required, which must come from six organizations, two more than what is currently established in the CEOE statutes.
In this regard, Garrido has indicated that the changes are necessary to “modernize” the CEOE, since the statutes were written “according to what happened 30 or 40 years ago, when there were many fewer organizations”, so “it does not make sense “That the minimum number of associations to endorse a candidacy “was based on when there were a third of the organizations that exist today.”
The president of CEIM has stressed that “it is a normal evolution” and that each organization has the model that “has thought is best”, so there is “nothing determined” and “all are valid”.
However, Garrido has recognized that “internally there have been many debates” and that “things can always be explained better”, although he affirms that “there will be time to explain it”, since nothing has yet been approved.
“At CEIM we decided to support these changes thinking that it is something that will improve the organization,” he stressed.
