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A coalition government between PP and PSOE. It was the proposal that Felipe González launched a week ago, in line with what is happening now in Germany with the two big parties. But the idea does not come from the former socialist president. The most important businessmen in the country have been developing it for a long time. As El Confidencial Digital has learned , from high-level business sources familiar with the conversations, the 17 major Ibex executives , grouped in the Business Council for Competitiveness, have been debating for weeks about the convenience of implementing a government made up of the two main parties. The designers of the operation are above all some of the greats of the Ibex: César Alierta (Telefónica), Isidro Fainé (CaixaBank), Emilio Botín (Banco Santander), Florentino Pérez (ACS), Francisco González (BBVA), Ignacio Sánchez Galán ( Iberdrola)… Juan Luis Cebrián, the most active promoter The big businessmen have taken advantage, the sources consulted explain, of the contacts prior to the meeting they had with Mariano Rajoy in La Moncloa, two weeks ago, to also exchange impressions on this matter. But the involvement and activity of one character stands out above the rest. This is the case of the executive president of Prisa, Juan Luis Cebrián , who has become the champion of this 'solution' and is promoting it at all levels.
Danger to stability and recovery The sources to which ECD has had access reveal that the main concern that has moved the country's big businessmen to discuss this issue privately and to consider the PP-PSOE Government is the risk, which they believe possible, of Spain Phone Number List becoming in an ungovernable country. Less than a month ago, senior managers conveyed to Felipe González their concern about the danger that the decline of the large parties and, at the same time, the rise of minority and in some cases extremist formations may pose to the stability of Spain . that would make the country ungovernable. The nationalists Specifically, they showed him their concern about the direction taken by nationalist parties such as CiU and PNV, which in the past showed a state vocation but have now changed course. They consider that, today, the disruptive independence movement that both groups defend makes any political pact with them on matters of State impossible. In this electoral scenario, according to the business sources to which ECD has had access, the senior managers of the Ibex feel enormous uncertainty that, in the face of the 2015 general elections, PP and PSOE will have to govern with the support of the nationalists. because neither of the two formations obtains an absolute majority .
Catalonia and the Crown are concerned Business sources add that businessmen are also concerned about the independence process begun in Catalonia . They see it as a threat that is getting worse every day: the separatist drift has more and more support, while there is no adequate response from the State as a whole to the challenge launched by Artur Mas. They also take into account the danger that the monarchy in Spain will face in the coming years, due to the progressive loss of popularity that is observed in the polls and on the street. And executives consider that the Crown is synonymous with stability , and therefore it is a value that must be protected. Felipe González has revealed it ahead of time According to the sources consulted, what the big businessmen could not think of was that Felipe González would make public the Government's concentration plan in the middle of the electoral campaign , especially because of the negative consequences that this could have for the PSOE. In fact, this premature revelation has not sat well with some of the top representatives of the Business Council for Competitiveness . Their approach was to launch the operation after analyzing the results achieved by the two major parties in the European elections on May 25, which they consider the first 'test' on what can happen in next year's general elections. As ECD reported , the former president of the Government addressed the possibility of the Government gathering in person with Don Juan Carlos in a private audience in La Zarzuela .