• Social Security.Escrivá wants to transfer the pension deficit to the Treasury and delay the effective retirement age
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"I invite you to read what has been agreed upon. What has been agreed upon is to start a technical discussion starting in 2021. Neither more nor less (...) What has been agreed upon is what has been agreed upon, in the terms that have been agreed upon. " Up to three times he has denied this Thursday the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, that the Government has already ceded the management to the Basque Executive or that he will do so in the coming months. Even, he has not even admitted that from next year because, as he has stressed, the only thing that has been agreed is to start a working group from next year.

Escrivá's speech, therefore, is significantly different from that of the Basque Government and that of the PNV, a party that no longer speaks only of pension management but also admits, as did its parliamentary spokesman, Aitor Esteban, that its ultimate objective it is "the total transfer of pensions" .

This was stated last week by Esteban in an interview with Radio Euskadi, and at that time sources from the Ministry of Social Security referred to what appears in point 32 of the agreement signed between the two Government. But today, Escrivá has been much more categorical and has been, in addition, in front of the representative of the PNV in the Committee on Labor, Inclusion and Social Security, Íñigo Barandiaran.

Other statutes also include

But at the same time, the Minister of Social Security has also pointed out that the ability of the Basque Government to manage pensions is, in fact, included in the statute of autonomy. Moreover, he recalled that this possibility is also pointed out in the documents of other communities. In these arguments, Escrivá does fully coincide with the PNV and Estaban, who in the same interview already stated stated that the Valencia Statute, "promoted by the PP, includes a literal copy of this point of the Guernica Statute". " Does that mean that the Valencians want to break Spain? " The Basque spokesman ironized.

Escrivá has also praised the management capacity of the administrations of the Basque Country, and has affirmed that "Basque policies are usually better designed" after Barandiaran has given as an example the good data produced by the Gini coefficient in Guipúzcoa. "And the good management is not only because they have more funds," the minister said.

The power of the PNV

But in any case, and taking into account the key role of the PNV in the approval of the Budgets and the survival of the Government of Sánchez and Iglesias, it seems clear that the Basque Government will end up getting the management of pensions and pensioners of the Basque Country will receive the information of their pensions in a statement with the letterhead of the Euskaldun Executive. And that opens the door for disgusted pensioners to receive a favorable treatment and break the principle of territorial equality of Social Security.

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