"The economy is circular and although certain companies or industries remain open because they are considered essential, the reality shows, as VOX has said, that if its clients are not considered essential, it has no one to sell to and, therefore, will mean closure and paralysis of the region's economic and industrial sector. Without income, it is irrelevant that an autonomous president decides what is essential or what is not, the closure will occur due to having no income, "says Blanco, while explaining that" it is not acceptable that the PSOE, both regional and national, consider that a company works as a switch that can be turned on or off without consequences. Many companies if they do not continue with their activities run the risk of not working again, so we urge the immediate reactivation of the activity and the lifting of the decrees that confine business activity. ”
For this reason, "despite the fact that the President of the Principality and the Industry Councilor himself were unable to criticize the Royal Decree, and carried out an interpretation of this rule," it has been shown, Blanco points out, that "it has served rather little, because if the production does not have an end customer, there is no point in maintaining an activity, "remarks the spokesperson. "This week has been Arcelor, we will see what happens to the rest of the industry. That is why from VOX we already demanded last week from the Minister of Industry, Employment and Economic Promotion, a contingency plan for the effects of COVID-19 to strengthen economic activity once the health crisis is overcome ". In addition, Blanco recalls, in the appearance of last week in the COVID-19 Follow-up Working Group, the head of Industry, to one of our questions, “moved us that there have been many Asturian companies that, despite being declared as essential in the Royal Decree, they have been informed that they will have serious problems of severe continuity because, among other cases, their clients are not considered essential and, therefore, they have no one to sell their product to, ”he points out.
For the spokesperson, "this type of measure can only be adopted by those who do not know the basic fundamentals of the economy, and that is that all activities are relevant to general economic maintenance, which is paid one day at the hairdresser, the hairdresser will He dedicates to pay his mortgage, and the bank that collects his quota hires an attorney to claim a debt, which in turn is converted into a loan for the butcher who buys the meat from a rancher, who in turn pays him the salary. to your employees. Everything influences everything, and if the hairdresser is declared as an essential activity but not the others, the hairdresser will have to close. We all depend on everyone. That is why the total economic closure applied by the national government and seconded by the Principality of Asturias is so damaging ”, he concludes.
