The economist Marc Vidal He criticized the fact that in Spain there are more civil servants than self-employed workers. “There are 441,000 more public employees than self-employed workers. There are more people who are paid by the state than are risking their assets to support it”he stated at Cope. The Catalan explained that, in his opinion, this scenario is complex to maintain in the long term: “It is impossible that with the current situation 181,000 million public salaries can be sustained”.
The statements of Marc Vidal They went viral quickly on social networks. The analyst commented that the only way to extend this dynamic was by increasing taxes or generating more debt. The Catalan’s words even provoked a reaction from the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puentewho criticized him firmly through several publications on his personal X account, formerly Twitter. “Here are more data that confirm that this Vidal is another hustler with designer glasses”Puente explained.
Óscar Puente’s figures to refute Marc Vidal
The minister Oscar Puente He shared figures to refute the economist’s position. The owner of Transport and Sustainable Mobility presented the percentage of public workers with respect to total jobs in the European Union. “Marc Vidal, investor and quite ignorant. Spain is in 19th place with only 16% of public employment compared to the total”he assured. The figures that Puente presented, in two different tweets, place our country as one of the countries with the lowest percentage of civil servants in the entire EU.
Marc Vidal: “We create fewer companies and destroy more”
The economist also regretted the commitment to the business fabric in our country. Marc Vidal recalled at Cope that during the month of April, 11,000 companiesthe figure lowest since 2023: “We create fewer companies and destroy more. The Spanish problem was never creating companies, but rather how much they could endure. Scaffolds are dismantled sooner or later. The facade is going to be exposed with all its cracks, which are now being hidden and which, honestly, no one is trying“.