Elma Saiz opposes the revaluation of pensions to Congress alone: ​​"Social protection is not chopped"

Elma Saiz opposes the revaluation of pensions to Congress alone: ​​”Social protection is not chopped”

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, Elma Saiz, He opposes the decree ‘bus’ in parts to the Congress of Deputiesas some political formations have requested from the government, to ensure that part of the measures are approved. “Social protection is not chopped,” said the minister, who ensures that the decree lying last Wednesday by the ‘No’ of the Popular Party, Vox and Junts, “advanced in social protection.”

This has been declared by the Social Security head at her departure from the dialogue table on Monday with social agents for the reform of temporal disability (IT). “What happened last Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies is something that had never happened in this country. And you cannot play with the things of eating. You cannot try to deceive citizens,” said the minister in The subsequent press conference.

In addition, he has loaded against the PP for “harming citizens in his efforts to damage the government” and “lead the denial coalition.” The decree ‘bus’ contained measures such as the revaluation of pensions according to the CPI and the public transport bonus, among others. Has also assured that The government is going to look for votes “up to the stones” not to “turn their backs on pensioners, the citizens already the most vulnerablesomething that the president has already promised yesterday, Pedro Sánchez.

Finally, he has appealed to the 12 million pensioners who were in suspense since last Wednesday, something that the PP has also used to press the Government and make the decree divide.

The unions keep the strike and ask that the shield be approved “as soon as possible”

The general secretaries of CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, have also taken advantage of the call to rule on the ‘bus’ decree. Both union representatives have asked the Executive toTry the social shield “as soon as possible”, although this is not “taxatively the same decree” that fell in Congress Last Wednesday.

“The Government has to have a margin of flexibility to try to grant a majority. But we will be very vigilant that, within that new Royal Decree-Law, If you have to modify, you do not fall any of the social measures“He has warned deaf in statements. System income, transport aid already affected by the DANA, but also the aid for housing rehabilitation and the use of the electric car, among others.

The UGT leader, Pepe Álvarez, has also indicated that, beyond the fact that the Government does it in one or two decrees, it is “absolutely necessary that 99.99% of the measures of the decree ‘omnibus'” see the light, An agreement is reached and processed for entry into force.

In this sense, the union leaders have explained that these are the issues that will lead to the protest of February 2: “We will urge the responsibility of the Government, which has the obligation to govern, and we are going to make a call to which The parliamentary majority is aligned with the social majority (…) but no doubt that Mayor Almeida or any politician of the groups that have dropped this decree, which we are also going to point out because they have voted against revaluing the pensions, of transport fertilizers that serve for people to use public transport at a more affordable price and the revaluation of the minimum vital income, “said Deaf.

Remember that Spain is aware of the Airef report

Despite insisting on the need to approve the measures of the social shield, the unions have recalled that only the approval of a decree for the revaluation of pensions cannot be raised without this including the measures contemplated by the ‘omnibus’ to promote The growth of social security income.

“In terms of social security, the revaluation of pensions has to go, but also The measures on income, the intergenerational equity mechanism or the issue of the increase in the maximum contribution bases. There must be coherence between expenses measures and income measures“Sordo said.

Both have recalled that Spain is pending the evaluation of Airef on pension spending throughout 2025 and have warned that, if these income and expenses measures are not accompanied, “it is likely that, before, earlier, earlier That afternoon, the closing clause that is agreed in the Social Security Law must be activated and that would entail an increase in social contributions. “