Sánchez claims the increase in pensions in a meeting with retirees in Coslada with whom he has played petanque

MADRID, 18 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has held an informal meeting with a group of retirees from Coslada with whom he has played a game of petanque. In this way he has claimed the rise in pensions approved by the Government.

In a video posted on his Twitter account and picked up by Europa Press, Sánchez appears with several pensioners in a park in Coslada with whom he has played a game of petanque.

"After defending in Davos that those who have more pay more, I have spent an endearing time with a group of pensioners from Coslada", wrote Sánchez, who has also indicated that his Government promised to revalue pensions by law and has complied . "For a safe and dignified retirement", he added.

In the meeting that the mayor of the Madrid town, Ángel Viveros, also attended, the chief executive played petanque and exchanged jokes with this group of men, to whom he also explained the rise in the pension of the who will benefit this year.

In another message that Sánchez has published below, he explained that on his recent trip to Davos, where the main corporations in the world come, he has worked to attract investment to Spain and also to defend fair taxation and thus those who pay more they have more.

"Now I am here in Coslada, in the Community of Madrid, where I have met a group of pensioners," says Sánchez in a video recorded in a park in this city, in which he highlights that the average pension is going to increase 105 euros per month, which means an annual increase of 1,500 euros, as he stressed.

"As Antonio, one of the pensioners with whom I have played petanque, told me, this means a third extra pay," added Sánchez, who has defended that retirees have a "decent" pension after "a lifetime of effort and work".

Finally, he has indicated that they have to make sure that the economic costs derived from the war in Ukraine are distributed equitably, that those who have a "more comfortable situation, contribute more" and that these costs do not fall on pensioners.