The Minister Spokesman for the Government and Finance,

María Jesús Montero

, has not supported after the government meeting the demand of the Podemos area of ​​the Executive to raise the Minimum Interprofessional Salary as of January 1.

At a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, Montero has twice made "an appeal for prudence" - clearly alluding to the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz - and has defended not taking measures that could cause an increase in unemployment in your answer to a question about raising the SMI.

The Andalusian socialist has stressed that "everyone is aware that this Government has a firm commitment to raising the SMI" and that "only in the last two years it has risen 29% from the hand of President Sánchez."

But he clarified that "we find that the pandemic has caused an economic crisis."

He has now made "supporting companies and workers so that they can keep their jobs" a priority.

He has not come to take for granted the freezing of the SMI as of January, but he has given it to understand stating that the Government "will make the best decision", after "listening to all the unions and employers" but "with the prudence that it requires this moment and bearing in mind the circumstances that our country is experiencing. "

The final decision remains for a next Council of Ministers, but the Spokesperson at no time has assumed the speech of the Minister of Labor who has clearly pronounced in favor of raising the SMI by at least 0.9% in line with the increase in public employees so as not to incur the "anomaly" of being the only large European country that does not raise this wage indicator in 2021.

In any case, Montero has affirmed that

the commitments of the coalition government agreement "remain in force

, but" the political intelligence is to adopt it to the situation.

He has given the example of tax reform, which is left for later in the legislature.

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