The new proposal for the reform of pensions that the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, will propose today to unions and businessmen has obtained, in the absence of knowing the details, a mostly positive assessment among unions and political parties.

The federal secretary of DC. oo., Unai Sordo, has ensured that if the Spanish government’s package of measures is in line with what was published by the media, the agreement is “possible, viable”, after arguing that “it is a great step and a radical change” about ” perspective of what the problem of pensions is”. Sordo, who sees the agreement with CEOE and Cepyme as “difficult”, has praised the “turn” made by Escrivá.

In similar terms, the Secretary General of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, has considered that the proposal “goes in the right direction” and sees “extraordinarily positive” that you can choose between the current calculation of 25 years to calculate the pension or extend it to 29 years. “It is fundamentally about not cutting pension spending, but about increasing income, which is what we had demanded from the beginning,” he added.

The proposed reform has, this time, the agreement between the two partners of the Spanish Government. In fact, the second vice president and labor minister, Yolanda Diazhas announced the person in charge of announcing the agreement, which aims to “protect pensions and reinforce the redistributive nature of the system”.

We have reached an agreement to protect pensions and reinforce the redistributive nature of the system.

We will do it by increasing the revenue that companies will contribute for the highest wages and by protecting the lowest pensions more.

— Yolanda Diaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) March 10, 2023

Shortly afterwards, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezhas hoped to reach a consensus with the social agents to promote the reform that, in his opinion, will give “security and stability” to the elderly and their retirements.

Today the Government is going to present the proposal for the pension reform at the social dialogue table.

We provide security to our elderly and their present and future retirements and guarantee the sustainability of our public system for the coming decades. pic.twitter.com/C80DdnhCwd

— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) March 10, 2023

Among the opposition parties, the vice-secretary for Institutional Action of the PP, Esteban González Pons, has expressed his fear that the reform “serves to ensure today’s pensions at the expense of those of us who are now between 40 and 60 years old.” However, he has stressed that everything that involves an agreement or consent from Brussels “is firmly supervised” and, for this reason, and waiting to know exactly the proposal, the PP will support it if it guarantees the rights of pensioners.

The PNV, waiting to know the “small print”

Among the investiture partners, only the PNV has made a first assessment. As Jeltzal sources have explained, the Executive has transferred to the Basque Group in Congress, in an “informative conversation”, the general lines of the reform, on which there is no open negotiation in this regard. Thus, the PNV will subordinate its support to the “analysis of the fine print” of the decree law.

Source: Eitb

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