It was not the primary nor the second time that he stated it on this electoral marketing campaign. Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted that the Popular Party has all the time raised pensions “in keeping with the CPI”. However, the TVE journalist, Silvia Intxaurrondo, refuted that this was not the case and Feijóo known as for one of many two to imagine that he was flawed.
After a number of hours, the chief of the favored rectified in a nuanced approach: what he actually wished to say is that the PP has all the time raised pensions “and the PSOE has not.” “Even when it was straightforward to freeze them because the PSOE did, we additionally uploaded them,” Feijóo responded by way of Twitter.
The nuance is in including the CPI as a result of in that case it isn’t true. From the Government, the favored candidate was made ugly by his insistent incorrect assertion on pensions. “Irresponsibility, absolute confusion, falsehood”, assessed the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá.
During the years 2012, 2013 and 2017, all PP governments, pensions rose lower than the CPI of the earlier yr. That is, they misplaced buying energy. What additionally occurs is that they continued to rise — a minimal of 0.25% — in 2014, 2015 and 2016, some years with even destructive inflation.
The downside of who, how a lot and when relating to the rise in pensions in recent times might be merely summarized as a question-answer.
Has the PP ever frozen pensions? No. Has the PSOE ever frozen pensions? Yes. Has the PP all the time up to date pensions with the CPI? No. Has the PP all the time raised pensions considerably? Yes. Have PP and PSOE raised their pensions above the CPI sooner or later? Yes. Has the PP voted in favor of re-indexing pensions to the CPI? No. The final three pension reforms: 2013, 2021 and 2022
In the final ten years we’ve got seen a number of pension reforms. That of the Popular Party in 2013 occurred in a context of exit from the monetary disaster, the tail finish of austerity and visits by the so-called ‘males in black’ to appropriate the pink numbers of the general public accounts.
At this time, the PP accredited a reform dictated by Brussels that separated pensions from the rise in costs and launched a sustainability issue based mostly on life expectancy at every second -this final part was by no means applied–.
Pensions would solely rise 0.25% if Social Security had a deficit in its accounts. This was, de facto, limiting the revaluation to that quantity for a few years as a result of there was an imbalance between the revenue and bills of the Social Security system. What occurred is that it was not so noticeable as a result of it coincided with years of comparatively low and even destructive inflation.
The socialist authorities of Pedro Sánchez proposed to repeal this reform and change it with one other that linked pensions with the CPI once more. The revaluation was calculated in one other approach — annual common as a substitute of annual price — however it could fluctuate relying on the rise in costs. Social brokers, unions and employers supported these adjustments, which had been voted in Congress on the finish of 2021. The Popular Party voted in opposition to. His argument is that this regulation was included in a package deal with many extra measures that had been processed en bloc.
The Pact of Toledo
The situation of pensions has all the time attracted consideration in electoral campaigns. We are speaking about ten million extremely mobilized votes — they’re those who keep at dwelling the least on the subject of voting. Decades in the past, the 2 primary events reached an settlement to take away this extremely related situation from the political controversy, in lots of circumstances very short-sighted.
In 1999, a Commission was created within the Congress of Deputies to calmly analyze the evolution of the system, handle its challenges and attempt to agree on measures. It was baptized with the title of the ‘Pact of Toledo’. Although it could appear unbelievable now, the final time this Commission met, an important settlement was reached between all of the events, besides Vox. In 2020, an settlement was closed that included many suggestions and amongst which everybody agreed was: increase pensions once more with the CPI.
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