The PP candidate for the 23J normal elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has needed to rectify one of many statements that he has firmly maintained all through our marketing campaign and admit that his get together has not all the time raised pensions in keeping with the CPI, it’s That is to say, that a number of of his will increase remained under what the worth of life had grown. Those will increase under the CPI came about in 2012, 2013 and 2017.
He stated it within the face-to-face debate with Pedro Sánchez, he repeated it in a number of interviews and he had defended it once more this Monday, in an interview on RTVE, by which he promised with the journalist Silvia Intxaurrondo to rectify if he was fallacious. She maintained that her assertion was not true and that the information she was utilizing was right. He turned cussed, and promised to rectify, and eventually he needed to do it.
A few hours later, the chief of the Popular Party has admitted that what he has been saying for weeks was not true. In an explanatory tweet, in any case, he has insisted that his get together by no means froze pensions and the PSOE did, with Sánchez’s vote. In addition, he has added that the PP raised them yearly, though these will increase didn’t all the time attain the rise of the CPI.
As promised, I make clear:
I reiterate that @ppopular by no means froze pensions and the PSOE did, with Sánchez’s vote.
The PP raised pensions yearly and the PSOE didn’t.
Even when it was simple to freeze them because the PSOE did, we additionally uploaded them.
– Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) July 17, 2023
The candidate, in any case, has taken a step again, whereas charging in opposition to the PSOE and calling on Sánchez to do the identical together with his assertion that the Socialist Party had by no means frozen pensions.
The PSOE: “Feijóo lies blatantly”
In the PSOE, they’ve rapidly picked up the gauntlet, highlighting that these will increase under the CPI, meant a lack of buying energy for pensioners. This is what the Government of Mariano Rajoy did in 2012, 2013 and 2017.
In reality, socialist sources level to those knowledge:
For 2012, the accepted enhance was 1%, whereas the CPI on the time of approving the revaluation was 2.9%. In November 2013, they rose 2% for the rest of the yr and a rise of 1 was accepted for the remaining, with a CPI of two.9. In 2017, the Rajoy Government accepted elevating pensions for 2018 by 0.25% with the CPI at 0.7%.
The similar sources level out that, as well as, “the PP voted ‘NO’ to determine by regulation that pensions be revalued taking inflation under consideration.” And not solely that, they level out that in March 2023, this similar yr, “they voted no to Royal Decree-Law 2/2023, on pressing measures to increase the rights of pensioners, scale back the gender hole and set up of a brand new sustainability framework for the general public pension system”.
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