The Popular Party will vote against the pension reform promoted by the central government, which will be debated this Thursday in the plenary session of Congress, if it does not receive today a “technical and documented justification” for the system change.
Sources from the PP criticized the Spanish Government for not having been given access “to all the economic and financial data and analyzes that have underpinned this reform on a key issue for our future”.
These sources assured that Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party will not support the reform “based only on the Power Point that we know from a Government that has repeatedly lied to us”.
“The numerous reports that question its viability offer us more security, the most categorical being that of the Airef, which until a few years ago led the author of the proposed reform”, the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, said underline from the PP.
The Popular Party and, specifically, its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has been very critical of the new system, which he considers does not guarantee the future of pensions. This opinion was expressed by the president of the party himself in Brussels, where the Spanish Government’s project has received approval at least until 2025, when the Spanish Administration will have to demonstrate the solvency of the new system.
The new pension model has the support of the majority unions and also the endorsement of the minority groups in the Chamber, but not with that of the employers, who have rejected it altogether.
Yesterday, in addition, the PP also criticized the changes to the central government that President Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday, because they believe that they highlight their lack of authority.
The popular ones consider that the replacement of the socialist candidates for mayor of Las Palmas, Carolina Darias, and of Madrid, Reyes Maroto, falls short, and that the president should also have dismissed Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, and Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, or, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo preferred to call them yesterday, “the minister of the legal nyap of the law of only yes is yes” and the “minister of the fence of Melilla” .
Some changes that, according to the popular leader, would be essential, given that his wear and tear and his responsibilities in two events for which the Spanish Government, according to him, has not assumed responsibility.
If Pedro Sánchez “had the authority” that a Prime Minister should have, the two ministers would not be in the Cabinet, especially in the case of Montero, who, according to the popular leader, will continue in the Government until the end of the legislature because Sánchez cannot stop it, given that he cannot face Podemos. “The changes prove that the president cannot and does not have room to reshape the Government that a president with authority would do.”
In the words of the PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, the vice-president Yolanda Díaz “has the feeling that she is more daring in standing up to Podemos than Sánchez himself”.
As for the new ministers, the PP assures that it will give them a hundred days before evaluating their work, but Feijóo already has his idea of ??why they have reached the Council of Ministers.
As for the new head of Health, the Galician José Manuel Miñones, to whom he wished “the best”, the president of the PP believes that his appointment surely responds to an “organic decision” of the PSOE, to “look for a candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta that it seems it doesn’t have”.
And on the appointment of Héctor Gómez for Industry, he considers “that it is a consolation prize to be a minister in the last months of the legislature”, after having been dismissed as parliamentary spokesman.
The president of the PP accused President Sánchez of having “paid homage” to “apprentices of autocrats”, words he said in the context of an event with the Latin American community in Madrid, while Sánchez and the King participated in the XXVIII Santo Domingo Ibero-American Summit. These statements, made by Feijóo alongside Isabel Díaz Ayuso, have cost him significant criticism.
Feijóo, however, believes that they have manipulated his words and thinks that the Central Executive is attacking him for having “destroyed” the opposition. That’s why yesterday he raised even more the tone and level of criticism that he already dedicated to him on Sunday.
For Feijóo, the central government’s attacks are an example of the “authoritarian drift” through which the Executive is sliding, which, in his opinion, has not governed since August to try to “put an end to the opposition” using all the “legitimate and illegitimate” tools at his disposal, and with an attitude more typical of “authoritarian regimes than of democratic regimes”.
