• By 2020, the lack of government limits the increase in pensions to 0.25% and paralyzes the rise in civil servants

Unions are aware that if a government is not formed in September, it is more than likely that benefits can only go up by 0.25% in 2020. And, therefore, in addition to pressing PSOE and Podemos to agree , already point to the possibility of looking for a "legal formula" that prevents the application of current legislation .

An Executive without full capacity to act cannot modify any law, and the one that now exists in the matter of pensions is the one approved by the Government of Mariano Rajoy that includes, among other measures, that in a situation of deficit of the system, the benefits are revalued a quarter point. Social Security, of course, presents an important gap, and therefore, if the political bloc remains, the increase that will be applied when 2020 begins will be 0.25%.

«Right now the legislation is what it is. And a functioning Government has no capacity in this matter. So if there are new elections, they will have to find some legal engineering, ”said UGT Secretary General Pepe Álvarez yesterday, after meeting with the President of the Executive, acting, Pedro Sánchez. At that meeting, in addition to the head of CCOO, Unai Sordo, the Minister of Labor, Magdalena Valerio, was also present, who said that "they will study the subject," according to Alvarez.

Valerio believes there is scope

However, Valerio, when asked about this point, did not even accept that this situation could occur. " I am that now I only have in mind that there is an investiture, " he said, to later add that "in the hypothetical case of new elections, there would be time" to decree a rise " at the same level as the CPI. "

But the reality is that if this point is reached, the timeframe would be really reduced, and it seems complicated that, indeed, the new Government could make any modification before the beginning of the year. And that, of course, as long as the polls showed a result that would allow the formation of an Executive quickly, something that in recent years has been impossible. A good example of this is that Álvarez himself recalled that the country has been " practically four years in an interim situation ."

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