• Ley.Cs asks to suppress the privileges of former presidents

Through the back door and camouflaged in a decree with measures to mitigate the economic effects of the Covid-19. This is how the Parliament approved this Thursday a salary increase of 2% for senior officials of the Generalitat, an increase of 0.9% in the pensions of former directors and the update in an unclear percentage of the assignments received by the ex presidents . The votes in favor of the 65 deputies of ERC and JxCat have allowed the validation of the decree in the Catalan Chamber, before the choral protest of the opposition.

Citizen deputy Dimas Gragera has pointed out that approving a salary increase for former presidents through this decree supposes "laughing at the opposition and the citizens", and asks the Government to focus on approving measures for the Covid-19 because " raising the salary for Mas y Montilla is totally incompatible ".

As this newspaper advanced on Wednesday, Ciudadanos will also promote a bill to suppress the privileges of former presidents and former advisers. If approved, it would void the controversial decree that has been approved in the Catalan Chamber.

"It is not in good taste to sneak privileges," added PP spokesman Daniel Serrano , who has branded the inclusion in a decree against the effects of the coronavirus as "political blackmail" the increase in assignments of senior officials, ex advisers and ex presidents of the Generalitat.

For her part, the deputy of the PSC Alicia Romero has described as "unpresentable" the increase in salary to former presidents that is raised in the fourth additional provision of the decree, as well as the increase in pay to former directors in the event of dismissal: " In a government that would like to be left-wing, it would be up to dialogue, containment and measures, not to raise the salary to high positions. "

The text foresees deferring different tax burdens to face the consequences of the pandemic, as well as the tax discounts, and also provides for emergency aid for families involuntarily separated due to distancing measures.

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