Francisco González (BBVA) will not be superminister of Economy with

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The president of BBVA will not be Rajoy's economic vice president. He does not plan to make the leap to the front line of politics in a future PP government. Francisco González is committed to a plan to triple the volume and business of the entity globally until .  As El Confidencial Digital has learned from sources close to the banker, it is not on Francisco González's agenda to become the new Minister of Economy of the PP in a few months . His roadmap will continue to be the corporate and banking business at the head of the second largest financial entity in the country. To date, the president of BBVA has not received any formal offer from Mariano Rajoy himself, nor from people he trusts most, to join his economic team ahead of the general elections. The same sources clarify that if this offer were to occur, González would not accept it. He completely rules himself out for the position. There is a compelling reason to refuse to be 'number two' of the Government.

The group is currently working on a strategic plan called “BBVA for three”, which ends in 2015, whose objective is to triple the bank's figures globally and create a much stronger entity. This project, which Francisco González does not want to abandon at this moment because he wants to lead it throughout the world, aims to achieve UK Mobile Number List organic growth, that is, a boom in the business itself in all the group's units: Mexico, South America, USA, Spain , Portugal and Asia . On the other hand, the entity has also set the goal of growing inorganically through more short-term acquisitions. Francisco González, critical of Zapatero The president of BBVA has been critical in recent months of the Executive's economic policy . In one of his last public appearances, at the national meeting of the bank's directors in Mexico, González stated that the Zapatero Government had undertaken reforms in which he did not believe and that is why they were not going to come to fruition.



Furthermore, he assured that Spain is experiencing a period of tensions and political changes, and that many people consider that there is a phase of "indefinition" , so it is urgent to "take quick measures" . However, people close to Francisco González himself explain that his criticism of the economic situation falls within the common sense and coherence of a banker who is worried that the country's risk premium will skyrocket and that his entity will find it more difficult to finance. his debt, but it has nothing to do with possible aspirations to be Rajoy's right hand in the future Government. Other candidates for the Economy portfolio Although Mariano Rajoy has not told anyone about his plans in this regard, some names have circulated, such as that of the former Secretary of State for Economy with Rodrigo Rato.