Pablo Casado has criticized Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday for announcing that he will raise pensions in December, to bind them to the IPC, whether he is still in office or not. "It seems demagogic and electoralist to put pensions in a rally and announce something that should not correspond to the Government in functions," simply "to scratch a few votes," said the president of the PP during a visit to the International Livestock Fair of Zafra ( Badajoz).

Sanchez took advantage, on Monday, an act of the PSOE to present some measures of the program to launch this new proposal. "It is an instrumentalization of our elders that seems very hypocritical," Casado replied. For the leader of the PP, "State issues should not enter the electoral agenda", but, in this case, circumscribe the Toledo Pact. "It is irresponsibility."

But, although they criticize the chosen moment and the marked "propaganda" aspect of the announcement, the popular ones are in favor of the measure. "We agree that pensions have to be revalued. Therefore, what comes to Congress, if they finally decide to do so, will have the support of the PP," Casado said.

The president of the PP recalled, yes, that the rise will not be important, due to low inflation (so far this year is negative in three tenths, in fact): "If CPI rises 0.8% at the end of the year , they are 4.8 euros of increase per month for a pension of 600 euros and 7.2 euros for one of 900. If you do not explain this, you are creating expectations that you can not meet later, "he deepened.

Casado has argued that in the Mariano Rajoy governments pensions revalued an average of 16% and that the 2018 Budgets included indexing to the CPI in that year and in the current one. "That is what they are charging thanks to the PP," he said, but the truth is that this was an imposition of the PNV to the popular in exchange for their support for the Budget.

For the brand new number two on the PP list in Madrid, Ana Pastor, "electoral propaganda attacks the intelligence of the Spaniards." "I think it's high to use pensioners for electoral purposes, it's a shame," he lamented in an interview in Cope. "We have to say that the PSOE is nobody to give lessons on pensions, because they were frozen, and Sanchez voted him as a deputy," Casado said.

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