Valencian employers’ association: in favor of regularization and against “national priority”

The president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community, Vicente Lafuente, expressed this Monday his rejection of migration policies based on the concept of “national priority” defended by Vox, while warning that this approach should not become an obstacle to the approval of the regional budgets.

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During his speech at the informative meeting organized by Nueva Economía Fórum in Valencia, within the cycle “Fórum Europa. Tribuna Mediterránea”, and supported by the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, Lafuente stressed that the Valencian Community needs public accounts “yes or yes” and flatly rejected the introduction of political vetoes in this area. 

“National priority is very debatable,” said Lafuente, who argued that the Valencian economy requires foreign labor to fill vacancies that, as he explained, are not occupied by local workers, especially in sectors such as elderly care or hospitality.

In this context, the business leader stressed that conditioning the approval of the Generalitat Valencian budgets on this type of approach “does not help to advance.” “We do not agree with there being vetoes,” he added.

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Lafuente went further by warning that the concept of national priority means “returning to the two Spains” and criticized allowing the existence of foreign workers in precarious situations. In his opinion, this phenomenon fuels an underground economy “that is doing us tremendous harm.”

Against this, he defended the regularization of foreign workers as an effective tool to combat this informal economy. “Regularizing is a good way to end the underground economy that does so much damage to the economy,” he maintained, also insisting that “all people must be respected, without distinctions.”

At the European level, Lafuente advocated for the European Union to establish a common framework that orders the priorities for the arrival of immigrants. At the national level, he considered that it would have been desirable for the regularization decree to have broad parliamentary consensus, with the aim of guaranteeing stability and effectiveness in migration management.

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