Ultimatum from the main opposition party on a key economic reform. The Popular Party will vote against the validation of the pension reform decree next Thursday if it does not receive technical information justifying it on Tuesday morning. “If it does not receive technical and documented justification tomorrow morning, the PP will vote against the proposal,” party sources say.
From the headquarters of the PP they affirm that “since in the last hours the Government continues without providing the required information on the pension reform, the person in charge of the PP in this matter will officially call his interlocutor to request it again. We do not understand that denies Spaniards access to all the data and economic and financial analyzes that have supported this reform on a key issue for our future”.
It will therefore be the economic manager, Juan Bravo, who will give the Minister of Inclusion, José Luis Escrivá, one last opportunity to receive convincing information. “The PP is not going to support the reform based solely on the power point that we know from a government that has accustomed us to lying repeatedly,” he added. The information sent by the Government accompanying the decree for its legislative processing is not sufficient for them.
And they argue their vote against the reliability that they deserve the technical reports of experts that are accumulating against the reform. “The numerous reports that question its viability offer us more security, the most categorical being that of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) that was directed until a few years ago by the author of the proposed reform.”
AIReF considers that the decree fails to balance the system’s accounts and, on the contrary, generates an additional deficit of 1.1% of the Gross Domestic Product. The governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos, confirmed this Monday in Valladolid that his analysis is similar to that of AIReF.
With this contrary position, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, follows the line that he maintained in Brussels last week. As EL MUNDO has published this Monday, Feijóo expressed to the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, his concern “for the inheritance that Sánchez leaves with the pension reform.”
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