The PP proposes an income pact in which the highest pensions rise less than the CPI

The PP is in favor of complying with the current law and revaluing pensions based on the CPI, but believes that it would be even fairer to raise the lowest benefits more than the highest.

In other words, to give

of benefits, at a specific moment in which inflation has run amok due to external factors.

This is what various sources from the main opposition party assure this newspaper.

Plan B proposed by the PP is "that the lowest pensions are updated with the CPI and the highest are referred to an income agreement."

have studied it

.

benefits

did not rise by 8.5%, but in an approximate range

, although obviously there is not yet a figure on the table, because it would have to be discussed with the agents social and the PSOE.

The same sources assure that this could be agreed upon in the processing of the Budgets, as a legal modification, and "the PP would support it."

Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team would like Pedro Sánchez to "sit down to negotiate" that income agreement that would include "a consensus on the highest pensions."

But, yes, without denying at any time that, if there is no State pact, the current law is complied with and pensions rise by around 8.5% in 2023. "Let's see if we are going to be more socialist than them ", a Genoa leader joked yesterday, in an informal conversation and in reference to the PSOE.

"The increase will be made according to the average interannual CPI for November. And the forecast is that it will be 8.5%.

, but the departure" of the Budgets of 2023 "registers an increase of 11.5%, so there is room," explained the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, on Monday at the press conference after the Council of Ministers.

The maximum pension would exceed the barrier of 3,000 euros in 2023 after the 8.5% rise.

Specifically, it would reach 3,058.82 euros in 14 payments.

Currently, the maximum pension is received by 64,554 people, 1.03% of all pensioners in the country, according to Social Security statistics.

But there are almost 300,000 more people who are just a few euros away from those figures, so they can be included in the same group.

In line with these data, the president of

, Inés Arrimadas yesterday advocated linking the revaluation of pensions

, as is the case in other countries, among which she cityized Norway, and accused Sánchez, during the control session to the Government in Congress, to "increase" the gap between generations.

The

have gone further and have come to accuse the President of the Executive, through the mouth of Edmundo Bal, of using the Budgets to "secure the votes" of the around 10 million pensioners that there are currently in Spain.

But the PP denies that hard way and offers, better, a differentiated and punctual scale.

And they insist that, if their idea is not agreed upon, they will stick to the direct revaluation with the CPI.

"How are we not going to revalue pensions if the elderly are a fundamental part of our voters?" asks another source from the popular leadership.

Although the PP's Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, supports revaluing with the CPI, what his co-religionists on the margins of the Toledo Pact have been asking for since 2019 is that

, which for the PP would be an indicator of inflation corrected with variables such as growth or unemployment.

And this would be valid for times when price volatility pushes very high or low.

In the opinion of the

consulted, the "real CPI" would help to ensure that there is no greater stress than expected in the pension system.

In the rent agreement

Feijóo has been demanding in recent weeks an "income agreement" that includes salaries and pensions, but has avoided getting wet about what is the figure that best suits the Spanish economy.

"What we have to guarantee is the viability of the company" and "achieve an income pact" that also revalues ​​pensions, the president of the PP said last month.

"We are waiting for the government to tell us how pensions can be increased with the CPI" and

, he added.

It must be remembered that former presidents Mariano Rajoy and Felipe González have also demanded the figure of the "income agreement".

The president of the CEOE, in fact, encouraged the PP to join this Monday.

He did it in an act of EL MUNDO, in which he said: "

and needs the main opposition party."

Garamendi calls for "talking about civil servants and pensions" to address a country agreement and prevent wage increases from business margins from becoming highly inflationary second-round effects.

"We have not gotten up from the table," he recalled regarding these conversations between the government, businessmen and social agents.

The idea of ​​the PP to discern between low and high pensions is rejected in advance by the unions.

The general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, ruled out yesterday that it be proposed that the maximum pensions do not see their amount revalued with inflation.

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