The PSOE and Sumar sign a government agreement that includes reducing the working day without salary reduction

The PSOE and Sumar have reached a programmatic agreement to form a new progressive coalition government after closing its leaders, Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, the details of an agreement that includes the reduction of working hours without a salary reduction, the main obstacle that separated the signature .

This was announced this Tuesday in a joint statement, in which they point out that the agreement comes before the deadline that both groups had set to achieve it and is "the result of the negotiations that have taken place since the end of July", after the general elections of 23J.

The PSOE and Sumar emphasize that the objective of full employment will be a "priority" in the new legislature and "will permeate the entire agreement." Among other measures, it includes "ambitious advances" in labor matters such as reducing working hours without reducing wages and immediately implementing a shock plan against youth unemployment.

In addition, the pact is committed to strengthening the public health system and increasing the public housing stock with the objective of reaching 20% ​​of the total stock; the upward revision of the objectives of the Climate Change Law; the expansion of paid birth leave; the universalization of education from 0 to 3 years, with the guarantee that access to public education for two-year-old boys and girls will be for everyone at the end of the legislature, and a fair tax reform that makes banking and large energy companies contribute to public spending.

"This is a response to the clear message that citizens sent in the elections of July 23: the rejection of a government of the right and the extreme right in Spain, and the mandate to continue advancing in rights and freedoms," they stressed.

Both parties indicate that the pact "will serve for a four-year legislature, will allow our country to continue growing sustainably and with quality employment, developing policies based on social and climate justice, and expanding rights, feminist achievements and freedoms."

The ratification of this progressive coalition government agreement will take place this Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in a public event in which the general secretary of the PSOE and acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of Sumar and second vice president of the Government and acting Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz.