A retired chambermaid remembers how hard they had it in their time to overcome the post-Franco era and what it cost them to obtain a series of rights that are now being questioned again with the rise and fashion of Francoism among young people. More and more young people think that life was better during the Franco era, but this retiree has come to remember the reality: “Our generation lived through the last five deaths that Franco killed 50 years ago today,” remembers this chambermaid on the set of La Sexta Xplica.
And, in relation to the difference between eras, as well as between young and old, the presenter José Yélamo opened a debate on the La Sexta program, asking if the current system benefits the elderly to the detriment of the young. Regarding this, Mari Mar Jiménez, a retired housekeeper, remembers that those of her time “we are experiencing a transition where we fight for the rights that all of you have today.”
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For this pensioner, those rights that are so questioned today were achieved in “the street”, but “not in one demonstration but in 200.” “Miners, protesters, many people died in those demonstrations,” insists Mari Mar Jiménez.
For Mari Mar Jiménez, as for many other women of her time, accessing housing was not as easy as many young people make it out to be compared to the current era. In his case, he was able to buy a house “working two jobs.” But a young woman who was on the set of La Sexta did not remain silent and responded forcefully: “I can’t even buy one and I work 80 hours,” to clarify that they are not blaming the elderly, but asks that the elderly not blame the young people either.
“When you have two jobs you pay more to the Treasury, and I am the first who has always said that if I have to pay the Treasury I pay it because it is good for everyone,” says the woman, who insists that the waiting list in public health and its privatization is shameful.
In a last intervention, Mari Mar said that “the problem there is is that in the last 30 years salaries have risen 2%” and warns businessmen and young workers: “Claim these businessmen that instead of 2%, they raise the CPI every year, then you would have better salaries.”