One of the objectives of Movimiento Sumar is to guarantee a series of minimum incomes for the population. And, within this framework, they have proposed a universal Youth Basic Income of 550 euros per month for young people between 18 and 21 years old. A proposal that they made during their political conference and that they see as a “starting point” to apply this guaranteed income to the entire population.
It is important not to confuse this income with the universal child-rearing benefit that Sumar has been defending for years and that they demand from the Government, and with which they intend that families can collect 200 euros per month for each child under 18 years of age. This income is more established and, in fact, recently the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, assured that she was going to work to have it included in the next General State Budgets.
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Returning to the last political conference of Movimiento Sumar, in it they also defended the reduction of the working day to 32 hours per week (more ambitious than that agreed by the Ministry of Labor with the unions), which is a commitment that they already established in their second state assembly.
Other measures proposed for young people
Likewise, in the resolutions approved by the plenary session of the political conference of the formation, to which Europa Press accessed, it is contemplated granting free public transportation to young people, lowering the price of rent and reducing the voting age to 16 years.
Regarding these, the training had already highlighted that one of the objectives of this forum was to prepare a political proposal for reconnection with youth, through innovative initiatives and in which the aforementioned Basic Income emerges as a star measure for three years for young people.
Another well-known measure by Sumar, for some time now, is its intention to create a ‘universal inheritance’, which it included in its program for the 23J elections. This was defended by the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz, and would consist of paying young people 20,000 euros upon reaching the social majority, thus giving the possibility of investing them in studies or entrepreneurship.
It is “radically false” that the new generations are “all right-wing”
In one of the Sumar Movement resolutions focused on youth, the group describes it as “radically false” that the new generations are “all right-wing”, but rather it is a “constructed narrative” that only benefits “the powerful and the fascists.”
On the contrary, they assure that the reality is “other” and that the youth is “alive”, that “they do not give up”, using as an example the mobilizations in support of the Palestinian people, against racism and in favor of the climate, feminism or LGTBIQA+ rights.
Access to housing, another of your priorities
Continuing with Sumar’s priorities, housing is another of its main priorities, seeking to fight against “speculation and rentism” with measures such as prohibiting the speculative sale of apartments. They also highlight the need to reinforce public health “in danger” due to privatization processes in the communities where the Popular Party governs, to guarantee the right to abortion.
“We are going to promote a political project that serves not only for those of us today, but also for the following generations, placing our social spending in the four pillars of the Welfare State and in the average of the euro zone (…) We have new challenges and new adversaries and that is why we need new challenges to build dignified lives,” is stated in one of the resolutions, which also calls for regularizing irregular migrants.