Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment del Treball, expressed disagreement about the relationship between businessmen and the Government of Spain. In his opinion, the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, skips social dialogue and wants to impose measures such as forcibly reducing hours. The Catalan businessman suggested that Minister Yolanda Díaz wants to implement “a police state” in companies through a digital platform that she will carry out through a royal decree, skipping the parliamentary discussion. Despite the fact that the minister, who participated in the same event, declared that she had a good relationship with Sánchez Llibre, the president of Foment replied ironically: “she is a sweetheart.” “Businessmen do not feel respected by the Government,” he stressed. «In many cases, the Government assumes that businessmen are alleged criminals. We must raise our voices to ask for respect and recognition of the work we do. We are essential to generate and redistribute wealth, to pay salaries and to be guarantors of social cohesion and eliminate inequalities,» said Sánchez Llibre. The Catalan businessman also highlighted his fear of a new energy blackout. Along these lines, he was in favor of extending the life of nuclear plants in Spanish territory. “What I don’t understand is how the Government, due to ideological pretensions, is going in the opposite direction to what many countries in the European Union are doing,” said Sánchez Llibre, who later gave as an example the energy policies that are being carried out in France and Belgium. «A series of solutions must be proposed for plants that have a useful life. So that, as long as we do not have enough renewable energy, we can use nuclear energy,» stated the president of Foment del Treball. The representative of the business association deployed a catalog of complaints on several fronts: he criticized the energy policy, being against the nuclear blackout, and charged against BBVA for attempting a takeover of Banco Sabadell, trying to pay a price that, he said, was «a joke.»