The Basque Government: "We have been prepared for 40 years to manage pensions"

• Social Security.The PNV will require the management of Social Security before negotiating the Budgets

The Basque Government is determined to demand and achieve the transfer of pensions. It is an old yearning, which in the Executive led by Iñigo Urkullu and in the PNV are sure to be able to start the Government of Sánchez and that, in addition, he considers that they are fully trained to manage.

" We have been ready for 40 years to manage pensions. We would do it well. Surely we will do it well . And it would also help us to complete other social policies, I do not know what the fear is that it will be transferred and managed," he explained. This point the Minister of Finance and Economy, Pedro Azpiazu, in an informative breakfast in which he took part today in Madrid.

Azpiazu's statement makes clear, therefore, one of the priorities of the PNV in the budget negotiations that will shortly begin with the Sánchez Government. In this process, the Basque Nationalist Party will try to increase its strength position further by using a ruling from the Constitutional Court in which, according to the interpretation of the PNV, "for the first time it says that this competence [pension management] is transferable and tells the State that it has to reach an agreement with Euskadi to make it effective. From the PNV they add that "Euskadi has competences in the Social Security economic regime since 1979, because article 18 of the Statute of Guernica says so", and hence the 40 years to which Azpiazu refers.

The Constitution shields the so-called single pension fund, so this part could not be transferred, but the Basque Government could receive the ability to pay pensions , have offices and even take the first step for an eventual and future Basque Social Security.

Agree on taxes and labor reform

In the same negotiating process, Azpiazu has also warned that the socialist government must agree with the PNV the tax increase that it wants to carry out. "There is a sane of the PNV with the Government in the sense that, indeed, when the Government proposes tax proposals, we have to agree on them. All the taxes that are put into operation in the Spanish State must be arranged . That is what they say. our rules of the game, "said the head of the Basque Government in the presence of the Secretary of State for Finance, Inés Bardón, who has also attended the event organized by the Executive Forum.

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