Citizens reject the 15% rise in non-contributory pensions: "We don't think it's time"

MADRID, 4 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Ciudadanos does not share the increase in non-contributory pensions to 15% agreed by the Government with EH-Bildu, since it believes that with the current level of inflation it is necessary to moderate salaries and not link pensions to the CPI.

"Increasing non-contributory pensions by 15% at the expense of more taxes, debt or future generations, we don't think it's time," said his labor spokesperson, María Muñoz, in an interview with the RNE program 'Parlamento' , collected by Europa Press.

The increase, which will be included in the future decree law to extend the measures included in the economic plan in response to the war in Ukraine, has been agreed by the Government with EH-Bildu for its abstention from the pension plan bill of employment that is processed in Congress.

Precisely in this project, due to an error by the PSOE, several amendments by United We Can were included, including one to unstop the contribution bases. In the interview, the labor spokesperson for the 'oranges' in Congress confirmed that, despite the fact that her initial intention was to vote in favor of the law this Thursday in the Labor Commission of Congress, she changed her vote after the inclusion of these amendments.

Thus, he maintains that if these amendments are upheld, he will vote against them again, and although the PSOE has advanced the presentation of a particular vote to reverse the vote, he doubts that the main government party wants to do so. "I no longer have confidence that this will happen. I can't trust what they tell me until I see it," he said.

In any case, Muñoz has also expressed his doubts that it is possible to annul a vote that allowed the inclusion of four amendments, and which led to the unstopping of contributions, forcing business contributions to pension plans to be listed and cutting part of the benefits taxes in the personal income tax provided.

"We will have to see it with the lawyers, see well with that vote what it is based on, and what it says. And if it can really modify the opinion of the Commission. I am not so clear," he explained.