Díaz proposes giving 1,000 euros to the mortgaged affected by the rise in the Euribor

He believes that Sánchez "has fallen short" in his proposal on the SMI

SANTANDER, 22 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has proposed today to give 1,000 euros as immediate compensation to the families affected by the rise in the Euribor as part of the advanced measure of the emergency mortgage bond that she announced last June 18.

He explained that this emergency bonus consists of giving "immediate compensation" of 1,000 euros and recalled that a limit of ten years old and a maximum borrowed capital of 250,000 euros have been established. The fund would have a maximum fiscal cost of 1,000 million euros.

In his speech during the XL Seminar of the Association of Economic Information Journalists (APIE), which is being organized this week in Santander in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), he explained that this bonus would be paid with the tax on banking that has begun to be applied this year to large entities.

The second vice president has once again warned, in this sense, that with a rise in the mortgage payment of 300 euros and a salary of 1,500 euros per month "it is impossible to live". "It is urgent to make this proposal because social unrest exists and is real" and it implies "risks" for the financial institutions themselves.

In addition, he has affirmed that the Code of Good Mortgage Practices, signed between the Government and the bank employers in November 2022, "is not working", since it would only have registered 10,000 applications, compared to the positive impact on a million homes that it encrypted the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

She has been in favor of acting "under dialogue", but has indicated the "urgency" of acting on mortgage payments. In this sense, she has referred to the request of the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, to request that deposits be remunerated. "It's very good, but it falls very short," she has indicated.

In these terms, he also referred to the proposal made yesterday by the Prime Minister and PSOE candidate for the July 23 elections, Pedro Sánchez, to raise the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) to 60% of the average wage. "I have raised the SMI to reach 60% of the average salary, as recommended by the European Social Charter", Yolanda Díaz has defended, for which she considers that this proposal by Sánchez "falls short".

Instead, it has promised to reduce the gap of 25 basis points with respect to the European wage average, in such a way that the SMI would continue to rise. "We are not going to stay at 1,080 euros. I am not going to undertake a negotiation at discount time for the elections, but if we govern again, the SMI will go up again" to take advantage of its "tractor effect".

He has also stated that, if he wins the elections, he intends to maintain the Frob's stake in CaixaBank, which currently stands at around 17%.