The governor of the Bank of Spain, José Luis Escriva, denied having been the one who requested this appointment from the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, although he argued that There were “comings and goings” on this subject for a year.
This is what Escrivá said in an interview with Onda Cero, in which he considered it “logical” that Sánchez I exchanged “a few opinions” with him on the nomination throughout the duration of the formation of the criteria. “I am a manager of the Bank of Spain, it is logical that he exchanged some opinions with me,” he emphasized.
He declared that “has no credibility” the information which ensured that he had not been assigned to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business but rather to the Department of Digital Transformation and Public Service given that he was going to be assigned to another function.
In this context, Escriva indicated that the area he led from the Government until last September is an “idea” of Sánchez that has “all the sense in the world and even more combined with the Public Service”.
Furthermore, the successor of Pablo Hernández de Cos admitted that he would have been appointed governor even if he had been a government minister. “I think the roundest profile was probably me.” he said.
“The process of developing the criteria was essentially profile-based. I think priority was given to the profile of a central banker, a person with extensive experience in the field of financial markets, a Bank official European Central (ECB), Bank of Spain and Bank for International Settlements of Basel The three fundamental references for us, and that was me,” he clarified.
When asked how long he knew he would be the new governor of the Bank of Spain, Escriva explained that it was “three or four days before the appointment.
Escriva assures that he “does not know” the final version of the government’s budgetary structural plans
Escriva assured that I don’t know the final version medium-term structural budgetary plans that the Government is preparing and which must be sent to Brussels, among others. “I was involved in a very sectoral affair, I was not at the heart of the subject,” he commented.
Finally, Escriva mentioned the housing policyemphasizing that there is a lack of housing in Spain. “There is a shortage of housing compared to the number of housing being created, there is a mismatch between supply and demand,” he stressed.
