They ask the Government and Parliament of Navarra to oppose the new cuts to the pension reform

One hundred pensioners have manifested this noon in Pamplona for ask the Government and Parliament of Navarra a active positioning against the new cuts included in pension reform, in the negotiation phase, and the privatization of the Public Pension System. On BilbaoMeanwhile, the Movement of Pensioners of Euskal Herria has gathered before the City Council, and has announced that this Thursday going to demonstrate in front of the Basque Parliament, in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The mobilization of Pamplona, convened by the Oneka, Nafarroako Pentsionistak Martxan and Sasoia Pensioners Associations, has begun with the usual Monday concentration in front of the City Hall, and has run in front of the headquarters of the Foral Government and Parliament, where they have delivered a letter with their main claims.

Speaking to the media, the spokesman for the group of pensioners in Navarra, Benito Uterga, has criticized that “the measures that are being proposed now are going to further weaken the public pension system, not to strengthen it.”

“With the verbiage that the public pension system is to be guaranteed in the long term,” they have already applied several reforms that have made them “increasingly insufficient,” he denounced.

As he has commented, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, is “very much in favor of deepening the Zapatero reform, and that will mean a much stronger reduction in initial pensions, regardless of whether it is later raise the CPI “, because the problem, he said, is in the amount with which the initial pension is accessed.

Given this, Uterga has indicated, they demand “the repeal of the pension reforms of 2011 and 2013”, which “are penalizing pensions for people who access” the system, “with significant losses in purchasing power”, as well as “a Sufficient minimum pension of 1080 euros, as recommended by the Charter of Social Rights of the European Union “.

He has also alluded to the need to establish a minimum salary of 1,200 euros, and that Social Security take care of only the expenses that correspond to it.

Likewise, the pensioners’ movement has called for an end to cuts in benefits and services that entail negative effects in the health and socio-sanitary field of care for dependency, and a public energy production and marketing policy, which guarantees the citizenship access to a service of first necessity.

Mobilization before the Basque Parliament, on Thursday

In parallel, in Bilbao, the Movement of Pensioners of Euskal Herria has announced that it will mobilize this next Thursday, October 28, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in front of the Basque Parliament. Like every Monday for more than three years, the group has gathered in front of the City Hall of the capital of Biscay.

“The demands that we have been demanding on the streets for more than three years cannot wait another day. We demand to repeal the cuts in the pension reforms of 2011 and 2013; to repeal without fixes the sustainability factor and the reducing coefficients of the early retirement with 40 years of contributions, a minimum pension of 1080 euros and measures to end the gender gap in salaries and pensions, “the pensioners have indicated.

In his opinion, guaranteeing the public pension system requires repealing the labor reform of 2010 and 2012, creating quality employment, establishing an SMI of 1,200 euros and reducing the working day, to distribute work and wealth.