SPAIN: Zapatero answered Guindos: “Bankia went public … – EntornoInteligente

SPAIN: Zapatero answered Guindos: "Bankia went public … – EntornoInteligente

ABC of Spain 2 / The political war on the case Bankia remains open. Today it was the turn of reply of former Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who has denied that the previous Socialist government forced the IPO of Bankia in July 2011 carving approved by the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores ( CNMV) and the Bank of Spain, as noted and subsequently qualified the Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, Luis de Guindos.

“Bankia went public because I wanted to leave,” said Zapatero told Cadena Ser collected by Ep. Zapatero said he was “surprised” by the manifestations of Guindos and assured that his government “has been more respectful of regulators than you can imagine.” “I never had a conversation or a meeting with the president of the CNMV and very sporadically with the governor of the Bank of Spain,” he underlined.

Asked why the IPO of Bankia then spent filters regulators, Zapatero has suggested that it should wait until after the open court proceedings, because “it is a very complex matter.”

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Although he has fought wondering how it is that Bankia has happened in just two years of being tapped to be one of the most creditworthy entities. “When the crisis Bankia leading to the release of his presidency Rodrigo Rato fall in the stock market starts was similar to that of other listed companies,” he stated, adding in the same breath that “what is surprising is how entity, it was the worst of the worst, which received an injection of 20,000 million euros, in just two years has proven to be the best “. “It’s a debate that will surely never close, has predicted.

That said, Zapatero says his mind is not shed veiled accusations, but” underline that fact. “” My catches my attention, and of course I want to prefigure, I wish that the whole debate of what has been the bank restructuring can eventually have a more gentle and more objective more reasonable public deliberation “has ruled.

With Information ABC of Spain 2