The Government has carried out a reform with a theoretical horizon until 2050 with its usual investiture partners, the surprise abstention of Vox and the vote against the main opposition party.

The decree has been validated in the Congress of Deputies with 179 votes in favor with the condition that it is processed as a bill to introduce amendments that partners such as Esquerra intend to take advantage of to "improve" the reform. Against, 104 votes over the PP and Citizens and abstention, led by Vox and Bildu, has registered 61.

The socialist group and Podemos have applauded the result put on their feet, including ministers Yolanda Díaz, María Jesús Montero and Héctor Gómez who are the few who were present. All of them have applauded looking at the Minister of Inclusion, José Luis Escrivá. This, in his defense of the decree, has assured that "there will be no cuts in the amounts of pensions (...) This is the reform for the social majority."

For his part, the popular spokesman Jaime de Olano has based the vote against in "the lack of dialogue and transparency" and that the measures of the decree "load all the principles that govern the system" and "punish young people." "This decree is barbaric," said Citizens spokeswoman Inés Arrimadas. They have also stressed the number of experts who criticize the reform.

The surprise has starred Vox. His spokesman in the debate, Pablo Sáez, has described the reform as "wrong" during a critical intervention. However, the parliamentary force led by Santiago Abascal voted minutes later in the sense of abstention.

VOX'S EXPLANATION

Why this change? The party has offered this explanation at the end of the vote. "Because, despite the fact that VOX denounces, as it has been doing since it arrived at the Toledo Pact, that the system is not sustainable and that the Government's forecasts in this Royal Decree will not be met, the text includes some positive element, such as the increase in minimum pensions -contributory and non-contributory- and an improvement in the contribution gaps and measures aimed at filling the periods in which women have not contributed because they have dedicated themselves to the care of children".

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