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With Spain in its worst monthly unemployment data in history and in the midst of thousands of temporary employment regulation files ( ERTE ) that will decrease the income of Spaniards for a time, the PSOE leadership in Congress and the Senate has resolved that its deputies and senators donate to social entities the travel expenses supplement that amounts to between 1,000 and 2,000 euros, depending on whether the member of parliament is from Madrid or from the other constituencies. At the moment there is no activity in Congress and this is the amount that parliamentarians receive as aid for the days they spend in the House and the parallel actions they carry out in the capital.

A measure that, in reality, has been promoted by the deputy for San Sebastián Odón Elorza , who explicitly resigned this amount in a letter to the President of Congress, Meritxell Batet. Given the impossibility of eliminating this concept from the payroll, if it is not a general decision, the PSOE has opted for its parliamentarians to assign it to social organizations for the duration of the confinement "as a gesture of solidarity with the most vulnerable sectors of Spanish society ".

But this first movement does not seem to be limited only to the socialists, because the request not to collect this money has also been formally made by other groups such as the CUP and have been supported by formations as though other formations such as the PRC, Foro Asturias and Junts, as reported by Europa Press, the Congress Table plans to address it at its next meeting.

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