Garamendi chooses the president of the employer of Valladolid, Angela de Miguel, to compete with Cuerva in Cepyme

Antonio Garamendi He already has a candidate to compete against Gerardo Cuerva In the next elections to the presidency of Cepyme. In this case, candidate, since the president of the CEOE has chosen Angela de Miguel current president of the employer in Valladolid.

The candidacy has been formalized today, after Miguel has communicated the decision to his Executive Committee, which has met on Wednesday morning. “I take this step forward, with great enthusiasm, by sense of responsibility and personal commitment to Spanish SMEs. Spanish SMEs are an essential actor of national industrial fabric and are key to the economic and social development of our country. In a socio -economic and geopolitical context such as we face, I consider that helping them boost their growth, competitiveness, innovation and internationalization is a critical issue. Play a key role, so you have to reinforce consensus and unity within the organization, “said the candidate.

De Miguel is president of the Valladolid businessmen and vice president of CEOE Castilla y León, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of CEOE and Cepyme. She has a law degree from the University of Deusto and Master of Democracy and Good Government from the University of Salamanca. Lawyer in exercise since 1995, she is a partner and founder of lawyers Nugotia and professor of the MBA International Area of ​​the CEU San Pablo.

She is the candidate appointed by the president of the CEOE to compete with Cuerva in the elections of the Employers of the SMEs, once internally and publicly found that Antonio Garamendi has lost confidence in the still leader of Cepyme and wants a change in the dome of one of the main employers of the business organization.

The candidacy is announced in full legal battle within Cepyme, where two sides face the vote of the Board of Directors that on February 18 approved a Cuerva proposal to limit the delegated vote and thus shielding itself from Garamendi’s pressures to unseat him.

On this matter, De Miguel has warned what he sees “With maximum concern, as a member of the Board of Directors, the actions carried out by the current president of Cepymeboth that have not yet called elections despite having fulfilled the maximum period to do so, and the latest maneuvers to ignore the statutes and governing bodies of this organization, which have forced us to a vote to change without powers and at the last moment the electoral regime. “

Yesterday an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee of Cepyme was held in which the disagreement was recorded. Cuerva relied on a favorable report by the former president of the Constitutional Court, María Emilia Casaswhich legitimizes its maneuver to modify the regulation. While the critical sector provided a legal report prepared by EY that considers the vote in which the delegated vote was eliminated.

Next Tuesday, March 11, Cuerva has summoned the Board of Directors to set a date for the celebration of the elections. His mandate ends on the 16th of this month and from within the organization they have been pressing to activate the electoral process. The president is willing to tighten the button and start the countdown, which would place the vote at the beginning of May, after an electoral campaign in which he will face Angela de Miguel.

But first you will have to resolve the legal mess on the modification of the Voting Regulations. María Emilia Casas recommends in her report that the General Assembly of Cepyme endorses the “provisional” agreement of the Board of Directors on the modification of the Voting Regulation “promptly, before the electoral process.” Meanwhile, EY’s memorandum asks to clarify before March 11 how is the composition of the General Electoral Assembly and the assignment of vocalies.