• Covenant: Pedro Sánchez promises new transfers and support to the new Statute to the PNV
  • Economy: The transfer of pensions to the Basque Country, the first step to break equality

Pedro Sánchez has materialized this morning one of the main promises he made to the PNV to gain his support for the investiture. Through the Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias , who has moved to Vitoria to close the agreement, the Government has agreed to transfer the Social Security management to the Basque Country.

This is an old vindication of the Basque nationalists that until now no Government had faced, because of the risks that could entail fragmenting Social Security for the equality of all Spaniards. The Government has assured that only the management will be transferred and that in no case has it been placed on the table to break the single box. That is, according to the Executive, it is not going to happen that, for example, Basque pensioners have benefits that are superior to those of the rest of Spain.

Social Security is part of a transfer package that includes others such as Prisons , which in this case are transferred in other autonomous communities such as Catalonia. With this, the PNV fully develops the Gernika Statute , which has been in force for the past four decades, and is preparing to process a new regional text, which was already underway in the Basque Parliament and must be approved in The next legislature.

The Government has proceeded to sign the transfers only a month and a half after Sanchez achieved the investiture with the key support of the PNV. He has done so in full pre-campaign of the Basque elections that will be held on April 5 and at a time when the PNV is going through serious problems due to its management of the Zaldibar landfill.

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