Yolanda Díaz met this morning with the social agents in the

Economic and Social Council

prior to the negotiation that the Ministry of Labor will hold this afternoon with the same interlocutors to agree to an increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) in 2021.

In open opposition to Vice Presidents

Carmen Calvo and Nadia Calviño

, Díaz has declared herself in favor of raising this indicator, although so far she has not said to what extent.

This morning, at the entrance of the Economic and Social Council, however, he has already advanced his opinion on the matter.

"Of course, it would be very worrying news if Spanish companies could not raise workers' wages by nine euros, of course the Ministry of Labor is concerned about companies but also about the million and a half workers who would be badly affected due to the non-rise of the SMI ".

The nine euros marked as minimum by Díaz

refer to an increase of 0.9% in the SMI, which is currently 950 euros

.

This 0.9% rise would be justified because it is the revaluation that the Government has applied to pensions and salaries of civil servants.

But the curious thing is that the SMI regulation in the Workers' Statute indicates that the factors to take into account for a rise are others such as the CPI, productivity or the participation of work in the country's income, with the general economic situation as the basis for the final decision, which corresponds to the Government.

For economists, there is no technical basis for raising the minimum wage.

And it is precisely within the Executive where the greatest shocks have been unleashed to establish what is done with the SMI in the year of the pandemic.

If Díaz advanced the rise last week on behalf of the Government without agreeing to it with the Vice President of Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño

and unleashed all the subsequent controversy, today he has raised the pulse again.

Calviño for his part maintains a lower profile but is just as firm.

Díaz's initiative threatens to bridge his powers so that his clash with the Ministry of Labor is resolved at a higher level by President

Pedro Sánchez

and Vice President

Pablo Iglesias

, the two heads of the parties present in the coalition.

A rise in the SMI, therefore, would disavow Calviño

, who has already been challenged by Iglesias on issues such as evictions, the price of rents or the labor reform.

Faced with the look that United We can harass Calviño last week, Sánchez came out publicly in defense of his vice president.

He highlighted its essential role in the arrival in Spain of the more than 140,000 million euros in European funds for the reconstruction of the economy, an achievement that, he explained, is what has allowed the financing of ERTE, the greatest success that Díaz presumes in your crisis management.

"There is an open debate," is the most that Díaz has admitted today in reference to his confrontation with Economic Affairs.

In its meeting with employers and unions, Work will try and extract a commitment from them.

The pressure will fall on the businessmen represented by

CEOE and Cepyme

, who have already openly expressed their opinion that, given the circumstances of the economy, the rise in the SMI must be frozen.

It is a position that is difficult to reconcile with that of the

UGT and CCOO

unions

, which announced last week that if the Government proposes to freeze the SMI, they will understand how the negotiation for an agreement that supports Díaz is broken.

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