Feijóo admits his "inaccuracy" about pensions and says if he wins he will seek to raise them and guarantee their sustainability

He adds that he corrected his words because he does not want "lies to be installed" in politics and if there is an inaccuracy, it must be "rectified".

MADRID, 18 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has recognized this Tuesday his "inaccuracy" about pensions by ensuring that his party had always revalued them according to the CPI, some words that he qualified shortly after. After emphasizing that with the PSOE the pensions were "frozen", he has affirmed that if he governs he will seek to increase them in accordance with the CPI and "guarantee" the sustainability of the system "in the short, medium and long term".

This has been pronounced after the controversy this Monday, after Feijóo assured in an interview on TVE that the PP "always" revalued pensions according to the CPI and then qualified that statement and specified that his formation "raised them every year", without linking that rise to inflation.

In an interview on Antena 3, which has been collected by Europa Press, Feijóo has indicated that "everyone is concerned about pensions" and he too because his mother "is a pensioner". Having said this, he stressed that in 2010 President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero "froze pensions for the first time" and Pedro Sánchez, who "was a deputy" at the time, "voted in favor of this freezing", as well as "reducing substantially the salaries of 3.5 million families that were public officials".

Feijóo has stated that the PP found a "very complicated Spain" when it came to the Government in 2011, "on the verge of being intervened" but "always, always raised pensions." "It never froze pensions and the inaccuracy I made was that there were years in which they were not updated according to the CPI. However, there were others in which they were updated above the CPI, especially when the CPI was negative. That's all." , has settled.

Thus, the leader of the PP has highlighted that the PSOE "froze pensions" while the PP "never" did. "I have accepted the inaccuracy immediately because I do not like that lies are installed in Spanish politics and that when we politicians say an inaccuracy we have to rectify", he asserted, adding that Pedro Sánchez "does not distinguish the truth from the lie.

When asked what the PP's commitment to pensions is and if it will revalue them according to the CPI, Feijóo explained that his first commitment "is to tell pensioners what the situation of the Spanish public pension system is" and, secondly, "bring a forecast of the increase" that they are going to have in the number of pensioners that, as he has admitted, "is going to be a lot" due to the "birth boom" in the 1960s.

Thirdly, he explained that he will sit down with the social agents and seek "to update pensions in accordance with the CPI and the sustainability of the pension system in the short, medium and long term". "And there we are going to work to maintain these two objectives: maintain and increase pensions according to the CPI and guarantee the sustainability of the pension system."

When asked if this sustainability is not guaranteed with the pact that the PSOE has raised in Brussels, he explained that the PSOE has raised a final provision "where it says that the financial situation of pensions must be reviewed every two years" and "if were the case, they would have to either increase Social Security contributions, therefore more taxes for workers and companies, or lower pensions".

"The pact says so and, therefore, there are tensions in the sustainability of pensions," he stated, adding that they must avoid this tension with the growth of the economy and increasing the number of Social Security contributors. "I HAVE ASKED MY TEAM TO TELL ME WHAT INACCURACIES I HAVE COMMITTED

When asked about the fact that he is also accused of telling lies in the 'face to face' with Sánchez, he has indicated that this debate is recorded and that he has asked his team to tell him "what inaccuracies" he has committed and which ones your "rival" has said.

As for his statements on the so-called 'Pegasus case' -assuring that the judge archived Pegasus due to lack of collaboration from the Government of Pedro Sánchez when it was due to lack of collaboration from Israel and hiding behind the fact that he read it on a teletype-, Feijóo has indicated that if one "dives a little into the judge's order" it is said that "the logical thing is that the State Attorney and the Spanish Government would have questioned Israel to provide more information and more collaboration with the Spanish Justice".

As an example of possible inaccuracies, he has indicated that he also said that the Galician community "was the one that had increased the debt the least and it can be discussed whether the Foral Communities or the common regime communities should be included in that." "I did not make that difference, that specificity, because the debt system of Euskadi and Navarra and the rest of the Autonomous Communities is not the same," she added.

Having said this, he has stressed that he did not "lie or lie." "And if I ever say something that is not correct, it is not the result of a lie but rather the result of inaccuracy and I also rectify it, because I believe it is good and also because in our country we are living through a time of lies that we already we get used to it," he lamented.