Despite the scenography that

Pedro Sánchez

displayed yesterday

in Moncloa, where he gathered the representatives of unions and employers to sign the alleged pension reform,

the announcement was nothing more than the umpteenth act of propaganda

.

The reality, far from what the photo in the presidential gardens wants to convey, is that everything remains to be done;

Instead of solving the problems of the system, the Government has decided to postpone the duty to tackle them again.

A kick to sec

uir decorated with euphemisms, such as the "adjustment" used by the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá

, to refer to the reduction that the pensions of the generation of the

baby boom

, those born between 1950 and 1970. While Sánchez joins the photo, he delegates to the minister the public exposure of the measures that do not serve his personal image campaign.

There is no great national issue that is not free from being subordinated to the triumphal and partisan account of the Government

, and we have verified this in areas of such relevance as the fight against the pandemic or the position adopted in the face of the secessionist challenge of Catalonia.

Pensions were not going to be less, so the Executive has already launched the machinery of great slogans - "the great pact that will save pensions" - to try to hide that behind the head there is not much too tangible.

Repeating the cordiality shown yesterday with all the social agents will be difficult when the time comes to really negotiate

When there is no other option than to put on the table the most controversial issues such as where exactly is it intended to save, who will these changes affect the most and how the future of the system will be guaranteed.

It would be appreciated if the Government began to treat the population for what it really is, an adult society, and pose the structural problems of the system in a serious and straightforward manner.

Advertisements such as financing part of the Social Security deficit through the General Budgets, the Executive's favorite formula: trust everything to taxes, are not going in that direction.

That improper expenses move from one item to another is an accounting trick, because it does not reduce them or make them disappear.

In the end, it is still the State paying the deficit of a system that continues to be unbalanced.

This first stone of the reform re-links pensions to the CPI, which dismantles the formula approved by the Government of Mariano Rajoy

, which introduced the sustainability factor to calculate them.

The Popular Party is leading the criticism of this agreement: Casado again disagreed with the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, in front of whom he assured that this pact is "a great mistake."

The sustainability of pensions requires much more ambition than photogenicity, but unfortunately the Government always bets on the latter.

The workers of today and tomorrow will pay for it.

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