The United We Can and PSOE pact on pensions and the reform that Escrivá is preparing for next November 15 generate tension in the Government.

"It is evident that some of the reactions of the last days have been manifested without knowing what he had said, it is evident," the Minister of Social Security lamented this Tuesday.

J

ose Luis Escrivá

has responded when, at the press conference after the Council of Ministers has approved

the rise in the SMI and the fifth extension of the ERTE

, was asked if he was overruled by members of his government in the controversy which followed his statements about the cultural deficiencies of the Spanish pension system. His opinion that Spain requires a cultural change to be able to work more between 55 and 74 years was answered harshly by his colleague, Vice President Yolanda Díaz, who from a few days in Santander asked him to be "prudent and cautious" when talking about a matter as sensitive as pensions, precisely the competence of Escrivá.

The Minister of Social Security has been restrained in the act after the Council of Ministers although he has been asked on several occasions about the reprimand of Díaz.

But if his tone has been moderate,

the message has been more direct: Díaz spoke without knowing what he had really said.

"We are not proposing to change the retirement age. I have the impression that very few have read the interview," he said in reference to the statements in which Díaz stepped forward.

"

Surely we all have to be more cautious," he

concluded, using the same terms as the vice president.

Díaz, for his part, has preferred to divert the focus to the scope of the coalition government and its pacts. "The minister has been clear, next Thursday - in the vote in Congress of

the reform that eliminates the sustainability factor

and replaces it with the revaluation of pensions with the CPI - we will be complying with the Government agreement with the repeal of the law of 2012. The Government of Spain is complying: let us be cautious in everything we do and say, I'll take the session next Thursday, "he said.

The tone of both members of the Government has been far from being that of those who celebrate the agreement reached yesterday with the social agents to

extend the ERTE for the fifth time

. This time, the validity of the scheme will last for five months, until February 28, 2022 and will emphasize promoting the training of workers who are in this non-activity labor situation but neither is it unemployment.

After reaching a point last weekend where both employers and unions took for granted that,

due to the demands of Minister Escrivá, the

Government's

proposal would not be supported

, Social Security opened its hand and offered higher exemptions to companies that do training while Work extended throughout 2022 the so-called counter to zero, that is, the shielding of unemployment collection rights for workers affected by ERTE.

In this way, the Government has the endorsement of the social agents for what will most likely be the last extension of some schemes that, since their launch in March 2020, will last for

two years, having covered up to 3.5 million workers with a cost of more than 40,000 million euros.

Vice President Díaz also celebrated that the Government agreed yesterday to increase the SMI by 1.6%, a decision for which she has been advocating since December last year and which has cost her constant clashes with the head of Government Economic Affairs,

Nadia Calviño

.

"We came out of the crisis by raising wages," he summarized.

The rise in the SMI in 2021 does not have the support of businessmen and, within two months.

Within two months, Díaz must inform them again about the increase he proposes for 2022.

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