Escrivá agrees with Podemos that pensions be calculated with the last 25 years or the best 27 of 29

• Escrivá announces the approval of Brussels on pensions and summons unions and employers tomorrow to seek the agreement

The

has closed an agreement with

proposal that will be presented this morning to the social agents, according to

herself ,

Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, and who also has the approval of the

as reported on Thursday by Minister José Luis Escrivá.

It was obvious that when the Minister of Social Security said yesterday that

and even that he hoped that the pact with the social agents would be made today because it already had the green light from the Commission,

and, therefore, by the rest of the

The main problem that had prevented this parliamentary support until now was the intention of the Executive to

from the last 25 years that are currently used to the best 28 of the last 30. That option has been discarded and will be replaced by a

who can choose between having their pension calculated according to the salaries received in the last 25 years or opting for the salary of the best 27 years of the last 29 to be taken as a reference.

The proposal, which has already convinced Podemos,

which also opposed an imposed extension of the calculation period.

For

, to whom Escrivá had promised to "adapt" the period employed to current job careers in Component 30 of the Recovery Plan, it is assumed that the measure has also fit.

The minister has been

and, in the last two months,

, to make sure that the advances he made with the community institutions would be accepted in the Spanish parliamentary circle.

Knowing from the beginning the position of the

, he could also know if the measures would be accepted by the latter.

In practice, moreover,

for the European Commission, to whom what matters is that the reform becomes the norm and enters into force.

The more consensus you have, the better, but it is not a

requirement to comply with what was agreed in the Recovery Plan.

will attend the meeting this Friday at 12:30 p.m.

, an agreement with them is ruled out, since from the beginning they have opposed a reform that acts mainly on the revenue side,

to offset the increase in spending derived from linking pensions to the CPI.

"We have reached an agreement to protect pensions and reinforce the redistributive nature of the system.

for the highest salaries and protecting the lowest pensions more," admitted Yolanda Díaz.

, Minister of Social Affairs for the Podemos quota , has pronounced

: "We extend rights to pensioners, guaranteeing the sustainability of the system

."

It is assumed that the Executive will try to have only the approval of the unions.

Once it has it, it will approve the reform by

in one of the next Councils of Ministers and it will be validated in Congress before Easter.

Escrivá also plans to go to the

to inform his deputies, something that they have been demanding for a long time.

The Executive is in a hurry to carry out the reform since it accumulates a

with respect to the commitment it had with Brussels.

In the Recovery Plan, he had planned to approve the reform before

and the next disbursement of European funds - the fourth that Spain will receive - is linked to this reform being in force.

The problem is that

, especially since the government needs it on three fronts.

On the one hand, with the

, which seem to have already given the go-ahead to the set of measures proposed by Escrivá -those already approved, which increased spending, and the proposals now, to compensate for this imbalance-;

the

, where they have had to ensure that what has been committed to Brussels has sufficient support to be approved, and finally the

since it is desirable that they put their stamp on the reform.

At that table, there are two very distant positions.

From the beginning, the

have opposed the Government's proposals, which go through guaranteeing the sustainability of the pension system, acting fundamentally through income, that is, increasing the contributions of the companies and without making any containment through the spent.

For this reason,

Although the employers have not yet expressed their position, they are already anticipating their no to the reform.

president of ATA and

lamented that "

has no limits. Everything indicates that the increase in the cost of pensions will be covered by a

,

, which it will continue

Escrivá has focused on dialogue with those with whom there was a possibility of an agreement,

, although they have insisted from the beginning that, before negotiating,

.

Even so, the unions showed their cards from the beginning: they opposed the extension of the calculation period to calculate the pension (something that Escrivá had promised the Commission on its own, without expressly appearing in the recommendations of the Pact of Toledo and which, in theory, had no impact on the costs of the system) and also made their list of

.

The latter, among which was a relaxation of the minimum contribution period to access the pension, have been interpreted as a possible

so that the unions end up accepting a modification of the calculation period, provided that this does not mean lower pensions.

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