The deputy secretary general of the PSOE and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, praised pensions in Spain this Sunday and came to define them as “the best distributed salary that families can have”. She did it at a public event of the PSOE in Osuna (Seville) in which she even pointed out that “grandparents and grandmothers do not want pensions for themselves” but for their children and grandchildren.
“Some pensions that, as Minister of Finance, I always say, are money, the best distributed salary that families can have, because grandparents and grandmothers do not want pensions for themselves,” the minister said. “They are help to pay for the electricity of the son who cannot pay the electricity, it is the help to go to the supermarket to buy the five things that the daughter cannot buy, it is the help that our grandparents and grandmothers give our young people to that they can go out on weekends or they can buy sneakers,” he added.
For this reason, the socialist leader reiterated that pensions are “the best distributed salary that can be in a family economy, in addition to being justice for all those who raised this country and that, with dignity, we must recognize a calm old age without frights”.
The minister took advantage of the speech to embarrass the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, for his lack of commitment to launch aid for dependency and home care for the elderly and dependents “despite the increase that they have received these policies”.
In another order of things, the head of the Treasury praised the announcement by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to approve parity in “decision centers” by law, and claimed that the “foundations” of equality have been built in Spain in the hand of his match. According to the minister, this new law has to allow company boards of directors not to have a “photo of suits and ties” and to be able to pick up half of the “talented” and “very valid” women entrepreneurs.
In addition, he referred to the zipper lists so that the institutions where citizens’ politics are decided are the place where the whole of society is represented: “Zipper lists, so that political parties -even those that do not believe in equality – they have to put women on their lists for representation,” he said.
“There is no socialism without feminism, nor feminism without socialism,” said Montero, who vindicated the ability of women to occupy positions of power, has opted to extol all that has been achieved and has referred to the long road that remains to conquer “equality effective”.
The deputy secretary general of the PSOE, who called to take to the streets this coming March 8 for International Women’s Day, reviewed the socialist policies that, during these years, have favored, in her opinion, very important advances in terms of equality. Among them, she referred to the increase in the minimum wage, the labor reform that promotes permanent contracts or the increase in pensions as measures of justice, “especially for women.”
According to Montero, the “foundations of equality” have been built in Spain by the hand of the PSOE, in matters such as health, public schools and universities, dependency, social rights, free justice and housing policies. In addition, he reiterated that the PSOE “is always on the side of women” and that, for this reason, it is going to “correct” the law of only yes is yes, by admitting that it is having unwanted effects. “We will correct it so that neither alarm nor recurring pain is generated for the victims,” ??he said.
