Ciudadanos national spokesperson Patricia Guasp at a press conference this Monday at CS headquarters PEDRO RUIZ / CIUDADANOS (PEDRO RUIZ / CIUDADANOS)
Ciudadanos’ frontal opposition to raising the CPI for all pensions will go a step further this Thursday in Congress. In the reform debate, the CS parliamentary speaker, Inés Arrimadas, will defend her party’s no to the text and announce the formation’s commitment: to link the upgrading of pensions with the increase in youth wages. Management sources are calling the initiative, pushed by Minister for Integration, Social Security and Migration José Luis Escrivá, a “collapse,” “suffocating,” and “condemnation” of an entire country’s future. The deal, agreed with unions but not employers, has the approval of Brussels and will be endorsed in the House of Commons by virtually all parliamentary partners, who have already expressed their support, adding more than 180 votes in favor of shielding the power increase to almost 11 million retirees.
“The PP’s solution was to condemn pensioners to an indefinite loss of purchasing power. The one now given by the PSOE is to indefinitely punish and sentence young people with more and more contributions and more charges,” CS executive sources blame in their proposal. “We propose a mechanism that would link the revaluation of pensions to the increase in young people’s wages. They would usually increase with the cost of living, but never more than the salaries they have to fund,” they add in the text accessed by this newspaper. Escrivá’s reform provides that all pensions will grow according to the CPI. The minimum amounts will be increased further until they reach 60% of the median income. In order to compensate for this additional expenditure, the contributions, particularly for those with high incomes, will increase with the abolition of the maximum assessment basis (now around EUR 4,500).
Citizens have persisted for months in refusing to increase all pensions according to the CPI. And now they are moving forward with concrete proposals after defining the framework program for the next elections on May 28, which will be presented on Friday during the General Council, the highest body between the assemblies, in Granada. CS, in turn, used the coalition government decree passed by the Council of Ministers on March 16 to intensify its offensive. “If we continue like this in the future, we will have to choose between retirement or education, between retirement or health care,” said CS Vice Spokesman Edmundo Bal on Tuesday at a press conference in Congress. “You’re breaking the system. We are demanding the resignation of Minister Escrivá,” announced national spokeswoman and party leader Patricia Guasp this Monday after the Standing Committee meeting at CS headquarters. From inception, they also propose an income pact and that benefits increase no more than the average percentage of wage increases.
After the party’s re-establishment and after some muddy primaries, the new leadership has laid out some concrete axes to align its rescue in the face of the complicated polls that are making it difficult to survive at the moment, which include precisely the reform of the party’s public pension system and the protection of “bruised”. Familys”. “The Escrivá reform has definitively destroyed the defined contribution nature of the pension system, increasing contributions for thousands of young people without them being entitled to a pension in the future. These are no longer contributions, these are taxes,” they claim from the management. The advertising campaign, launched two weeks ago by Ciudadanos ahead of the spring elections, involved putting up a large screen in central Madrid with the slogan He won’t get a pension either. Guilty: PSOE and PP and the image of a baby. A snapshot that they have since replicated on their social networks.
The Ciudadanos banner displayed in central Madrid in mid-March PEDRO RUIZ / CIUDADANOS (PEDRO RUIZ / CIUDADANOS)
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