The Municipal People's Party submitted a motion through which it will urge the National Government to respect the agreements of the Toledo Pact and ensure the Social Security surplus and the rights of pensioners.
The Spokesman of the Municipal Group PP, Josefa María Méndez Sachs, explained in a statement that "the Government of Argentina has returned to again breach the Pact of Toledo using Social Security funds against the law."
He recalled that "the government has spent 5,200 million euro of the contributory pension funds to pay non-contributory pensions."
"The Act requires that non-contributory pensions paid to the allocation of the state budget," said the mayor recalled, but "the Socialist executive has been in the situation that can not now pay the non-contributory pension deficit because has generated its historic economic mismanagement. "
Popular indicated that "the PP and reiterated its rejection of any increase in the statutory retirement age beyond the current 65 years and have raised several lines of action to achieve the necessary aim of prolonging the working life of the Spanish , but on a voluntary, flexible and encouraged. "
Furthermore, she added, "With this decision, the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, will pay Social Security funds that should pay the money his government has squandered. The Government is obliged to make the tax money, but despite having gone can not do because he has wasted. "
In this sense he said that "once again shows that the cut in benefits is due to the consequences of the policies of the PSOE. Citizens are forced to work harder to draw a pension reduced because the socialist government has failed manage the crisis that shook. "
In this sense, he claimed that "it is necessary to sue an ordered set of reforms that did snap an approach as the Toledo Pact in terms of forecasting and scheduling a standardized evolution of public pension system."
This has indicated that "what Spain needs is fiscal austerity, real labor reforms, reforms on energy system, modernization and business innovation and internationalization, and banking sector reforms."
On the other hand, in relation to retirement, "the most important would be to extend the stay in the labor force voluntarily creating incentives to continue working. Must be criticized that the freezing of pensions has been made in breach of the Pact of Toledo as well go against the law guaranteeing the purchasing power of pensions, "said the spokesman pointed Municipal People.
However, it has mayor pointed out that "the Executive has not met the most important elements of the agreement of 2006, and the separation of funding sources, or access to early retirement of the groups with drudgery toxic or unhealthy, or general integration scheme because sign anything with this government does not guarantee anything. "
So, according to Sánchez Méndez, "this situation is leading him to financial lace against the law and against the original spirit of the Pact of Toledo. These measures are condemning the Spanish more sacrifices, more effort in exchange for less ".
The reforms proposed by the government "reforms are supermarket, seems to have caught on each shelf a proposal and have incorporated them into a whole that has no connection or element of rationality," the council concluded.
Source: PP Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com