Gerardo Cuerva: “Yolanda Díaz does not want me to preside Cepyme” | Economy | EUROtoday
Gerardo Cuerva (Granada, 1971) believes that Antonio Garamendi desires Cepyme to not have his personal voice, that he’s subjugated to the dictation of the nice employer of which he’s half, Ceoe. That personal speech, says Cuerva, is the basis that Garamendi helps an alternate candidacy for Granada to preside over Ceypme, raised by the pinnacle of Ceoe in Valladolid, Angela de Miguel. Ten days after the elections within the employer of SMEs, the Granada businessman attends to El País.
Ask. He accuses Ceoe of doing dangerous issues, however he has not complained clearly till an alternate candidacy has mounted. Why did not he do it earlier than?
Answer. Because I imagine within the enterprise unit. That no person places in my mouth that I come to dynamit the unity between CEOE and CEPYME. That is flatly false. I’m not exterior to the CEOE, I’m pure Ceoe. Of course, I’ll defend the pursuits of the SME as a result of it’s the unit of unit we now have chosen. In the bosom of CEOE somebody misunderstands that defending the pursuits of the SME is to be in opposition to CEOE. I say this now as a result of somebody desires to silence the voice of the SME.
P. Who?
R. Clearly, Antonio [Garamendi] He has mentioned it: he desires an individual official who works eight hours a day, 5 days per week and is at his orders. That goes in opposition to the spirit of the group. Two folks have mentioned publicly and repeatedly that they are not looking for me to be president of Cepyme: the president of CEOE and the second vp of the Government, Yolanda Díaz.
P. Has Díaz advised him that personally?
R. It has leaked on many events. I do know that in some boards it has come to say or mentioned that the agreements aren’t signed due to Gerardo, which is an uncompromising. What I’m not is submissive, I’m sorry.
P. Perhaps different members of the Government, maybe the Minister of Economy, does want that you simply proceed main Cepyme.
R. Minister Carlos Body has a excessive sensitivity with the small and medium Spanish firm. I shouldn’t have many variations with him once we deal with totally different approaches. Meeting in Economics A very susceptible to hearken to what are the calls for of the enterprise world. I can not discover that concord within the Ministry of Labor.
P. Did you search for the help of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who introduced and exalted him not too long ago at an informative breakfast?
R. Ayuso was good to introduce me at a breakfast, however that doesn’t imply that I’ve choice for some politician. Although I’m happy that there are politicians who commune with my rules of enhancement of the enterprise world and the protection of the entrepreneur. Hopefully the president of the Government had that thought and expressed it publicly. Hopefully the second vp of the federal government, Yolanda Díaz, mentioned the issues that Isabel Díaz Ayuso says. I’d be delighted.
P. He says that employer associations will need to have ideology, however not social gathering. Do you suppose Garamendi has approached an excessive amount of CEOE to the PP?
R. I cannot worth what Antonio has in his head or has completed together with his choices. I ratify that we now have to barter and be with the federal government that the Spaniards resolve. But we can’t quit what we predict and what we imagine in: that the system that works for personal exercise shouldn’t be communism and it’s liberalism. And if they need an individual submissive to the Government, to anyone, who don’t vote for Gerardo Cuerva.
P. Following his logic, if he wins the candidacy of Angela de Miguel Las SMEs, they’ll cease being effectively represented, would they then do effectively to be defended by different actors comparable to Pimec or Conpymes?
R. I don’t improve, I don’t trigger, nor am I going to encourage that. As one among my elders within the associative world taught me, “the kicks stick inside the kiosk.” This implies that I don’t say: “I don’t like this association, so I get out and I believe another.” The associative world shouldn’t be constructed like this.
P. Does Cepyme make sense inside CEOE? The pursuits of enormous corporations are sometimes not coinciding with these of SMEs.
R. There is a enterprise unit of motion and I don’t come to vary that, except it was a request or a debate had been opened throughout the group. And none of that has occurred. If somebody desires to vary the mannequin, don’t be completed by the again door, to place it on the desk and focus on it as adults.
P. Would or not it’s in favor of addressing that debate? Don’t you suppose that an out of Ceoe would higher defend the pursuits of the small enterprise?
R. I’ve not raised it as a result of now it doesn’t contact. What touches is defending Cepyme’s pursuits inside CEOE.
P. Do you suppose you’ll win?
R. With the numbers on the desk, right now I see that I can win this challenge completely. Although because the elections are approaching, the extent of strain from the opposite social gathering can also be elevating proportionally. Even so I’m satisfied that the small and medium enterprise is on our facet.
P. With pressures from the opposite social gathering, do you consult with calls from CEOE to SME organizations?
R. That’s how it’s. And clear and evident. But I cannot go into the main points. I deeply remorse that interference in a course of that I feel needs to be democratic and clear.

P. Could you clearly say that neither you nor anybody in your group has made a lot of these calls to ask for the vote or that doable soiled rags of your opponent and your environment haven’t been investigated?
R. I can say it in entrance of the notary and the choose. Never, by no means.
P. If you lose on the twentieth, will Cepyme go to proceed defending the employer pursuits outdoors that orbit or will you go for the presidency of CEOE subsequent yr?
R. Do not ponder dropping. But, in any case, what they can’t silence is the voice of the SME. And I’ll work in order that within the bosom of the CEOE there’s a agency, clear and non -dubitative voice of the protection of that of the small and medium -sized firm. And I’ll proceed to do this every time my energy permit me.
P. Inside CEOE?
R. Now I’m not on this conflict.
P. From the orbit of its opponent it’s transmitted that this battle happens as a result of its true aspiration is to go for the presidency of CEOE …
R. Look if that’s false that I’ve supplied the president of the CEOE that, if this was an issue of individuals, I used to be leaving. That what can’t be touched right here is Cepyme.
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