Vara believes that the car battery gigafactories in Navalmoral and Sagunto will succeed with or without Perte VEC

ALMENDRALEJO (BADAJOZ), Oct.

Vara believes that the car battery gigafactories in Navalmoral and Sagunto will succeed with or without Perte VEC

ALMENDRALEJO (BADAJOZ), Oct. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the Junta de Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, has defended that regardless of whether the gigafactory for batteries for electric cars in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres) enters the Perte VEC or not, it will go ahead, as will the one in Sagunto (Valencia), by "one way or another".

"One does not decide to make or not make investments of these characteristics overnight," said Vara when asked about the Volkswagen group's approach to continue with the project in Sagunto if it stays out of Perte.

Thus, he frames this threat of the German automobile giant in "pressure tactic postures", while assuming that, as in the case of the plant that the Chinese Envision promotes in Extremadura, they will already have "a lot of work done".

Fernández Vara has pointed out about the Navalmoral gigafactory that "at a given moment" work began to "guarantee that outside the Perte it would have viability and be a reality in the future", which is why in this case, he affirms, " We are less anxious."

This previous work, he added, "helps to find a solution to the problem outside Perte", a mechanism that is "very complicated, very complex, very difficult to adapt to new projects like these".

Thus, he has been convinced that "in the end he will move forward and by one way or another the two gigafactories will be built and Spain will be at the forefront of the electric car", he said in response to journalists at an event convened in Almendralejo by the Extremadura Association of Victims of Terrorism.

"It is not an essential thing", Vara has abounded about Perte, which is a mechanism that "constricts a lot", since work is already being done on other financing channels such as regional incentives and other funds from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism itself , with whom he assures that there is a "fluid relationship".

On the other hand, asked about the amendment to the joint totality presented by the PP and Citizens to the General Budget Project of the Autonomous Community, he pointed out that he thinks it is "very good", and that "they are perfectly right".

Fernández Vara has limited himself to responding that this "is what the laws dictate" and "that's what we're here for." "On the 27th we will be there," he said, referring to the date on which the amendments to the entirety will be debated.

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