“I’m convinced that, right now, not one international or national investor will take part in a new investment project until this is cleared up.”
Some of Catalonia’s biggest businesses began taking steps to transfer their registered headquarters to other cities in Spain.
Yesterday, Banco Sabadell, Spain’s fifth largest bank, lost 6.3 per cent of its share price.
And today the board decided at an extraordinary meeting to move the registered head office to Alicante in southeastern Spain, the bank said.
The board of Caixabank, Spain’s third-largest lender, is due to meet on Friday to discuss a possible similar transfer – potentially moving its legal base away from Catalonia.
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The Spanish Government will approve a decree on Friday making it easier for companies to transfer their legal base out of Catalonia, two sources said.
But it has been warned the move could deal a serious blow to the region’s finances as it considers independence.
Opinion polls conducted before the vote suggest a minority of around 40 per cent of residents in Catalonia backed independence.
But a majority wanted a referendum to be held, and the violent police crackdown angered Catalans across the divide – eventually resulting in a win for independence campaigners.
The region has since been plunged into instability however, as Spain continues to view the result as “illegal” while Catalan President Carles Puigdemont insists he will announce independence next week.