• The candidate for the Prime Minister said at a meeting with the Board of CEPES, that "we must promote the social economy, more productive, sustainable and capable of generating stable employment business model".
• CEPES president urges Pedro Sanchez to have a representation of the social economy companies in the table of social dialogue, given its qualitative and quantitative weight in the current Spanish socioeconomic fabric.
• Pedro Sanchez and Mari Luz Rodriguez appreciated the request of the President of CEPES to create a Legislative Committee No Social Economy in the Congress of Deputies.
• The Spanish Social Economy has more than 42,800 companies and represents 10% of GDP and 12% of employment.
(Madrid, February 10, 2016) .- The secretary general of the PSOE and candidate for Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said during his meeting with the CEPES Board that "the social economy is a priority" for his government if it agrees to the Moncloa.
Sanchez went Monday- afternoon -in this meeting accompanied by the secretary of the PSOE employment, Mari Luz Rodriguez, and the Minister of Economy, Manuel de la Rocha. By CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño was accompanied by the 28 members of CEPES as part of the Board of Directors of the organization.
Sanchez said that "the social economy plays a key role in the consolidation of the economic recovery." Therefore, he stressed the need to "promote Social Economy", which he defined as "a more productive, sustainable and capable of generating stable employment business model."
In addition, Sanchez recalled that made a public commitment to boost this business sector in his first appearance after the King will propose forming a government, a commitment reiterated in the first visit by a CEPES within the contacts will startwith business and social actors to present its draft Government and invite proposals of each sector.
Pedroza said the need for this commitment to social economy materialize into concrete measures to promote and encourage this sector, and recalled the CEPES five major proposals, such as employer's Social Economy, presented to the parties contesting the elections .
CEPES president, Juan Antonio Pedreño, said the presidential candidate of the government the need to be a great Pact for Employment, in which the diversity and pluralism of all existing forms of company is envisaged, as well as encourage entrepreneurship, recruitment, innovation and economic growth.
In this regard, Sanchez stressed "the contribution of the Social to the creation of stable and quality employment economy, as well as economic wealth and social cohesion", why he announced that "will be one of the foundations and their priorities "of a possible government.
"One of the things I value most of the social economy," said Sanchez, is its ability to dialogue between workers, companies and institutions. "
Pedroza took the opportunity to overtake Pedro Sanchez some of the requests that CEPES will begin to ask the parliamentary groups, as is the creation of a non-legislative Commission on Social Economy in the Congress of Deputies. Similarly, the President of CEPES Sanchez asked theSocial economy is a priority in the organizational chart of the next government. Both initiatives were assessed positively by Pedro Sanchez and his team.
SOCIAL DIALOGUE
Also, Pedreño and CEPES Board reiterated the candidate for president of the Government of Spain the need for the Social Economy to be included in social dialogue.
In this sense, the president of CEPES recalled that the Social Economy, currently absent from the tables of social dialogue, is a business sector in Spain has more than 42,800 companies and represents 10% of GDP and 12% of employment " .
"The government and the political forces," he said Pedreño, "must meet the social demand for betting on the Social Economy, a business sector which shows that another economic model is possible, creating stable, quality jobs, more participatory and where decisions It is made democratically, which encourages innovation, social cohesion and local development, and in which people take precedence over capital and profits are distributed. "
During the meeting, the first held by Pedro Sanchez with a business organization within the contacts to bring your project to different agents of Government, the 28 members of the Board of CEPES Sánchez moved to a battery of proposals to strengthen the Social Economy industrial level tax, economic, social and labor.
