• The PP deputy stresses that "small and medium-sized companies represent 98% of the business fabric, 75% of employment", so he regrets that "in the last month of April almost 8% of SMEs were destroyed with employees ”• Complaint that“ less than 40% of the line of guarantees approved by the Government has been used to provide the necessary liquidity to companies and the self-employed ”.
• He points out that "the complexity of the requirements and the administrative structure that makes it difficult to complete the documentation, makes the guarantees announced so far practically inaccessible to micro-companies". • He accuses the Government of “leaving those affected by the ERTE unprotected. As of today, there are one million workers affected by ERTE who have not received their benefit.
• "SMEs, the self-employed and, ultimately, citizens need certainty, guarantees and support to move forward and that is something that the Government has not offered so far," he says.
• Affirms that "the Popular Group supports the demands of the self-employed, SMEs and merchants who see their employment at risk" and demands that the Government "guarantee their liquidity with the guarantee of the State and not leave them unprotected". • It breaks down the PP's economic plan, which includes exempting from reimbursement of taxes the reopening of bankrupt companies, recovering the flat rate of € 50 for the self-employed, extending the payment of ERTE until the end of the year, creating subsidized contracts to incorporate workers arising from layoffs by the Covid-19, expand liquidity mechanisms, enhance digitization, teleworking and flexibilization of hours, reduce fiscal costs, deferral of taxes to self-employed and companies without income, and reduce bureaucracy.
