• Government.Yolanda Díaz to José Luis Escrivá in a row between four ministers: "Don't tell me anything, I'm not from Podemos!"

  • Economy.Escrivá proposes raising the contribution term to calculate the pension to 35 years and Podemos opposes

The Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, has spoken for the first time today about the row he maintained last week with Yolanda Díaz, in which he accused United We Can of leaking the new calculation in the pension system, and on which this newspaper reported this Saturday, and has assured, in an interview in La Sexta, that "it is not reasonable to disclose private meetings."

Escrivá has thus ratified what has been published by EL MUNDO.

On Wednesday, at a meeting in which the economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, and the government spokesperson and finance minister, María Jesús Montero, Escrivá charged United We can, with criticism that "there is no right," which led to the head of Labor to intervene and deny that she had anything to do with it.

"What are you telling me, I'm not from Podemos," he replied, referring to the fact that he is a member of the PCE.

Díaz, like other purple ministers had warned him that increasing the contribution years from 25 to 35 would not have the support of the coalition partners.

Pablo Iglesias also transmitted it to the President of the Government.

This matter has caused a tremendous shock within the Executive since EL MUNDO announced in December that the Government considered extending the years required for the listing from 25 to 35 years.

Today the Secretary of State for Social Rights, Nacho Álvarez, affirmed in an interview in El País, that Escrivá and Calviño are promoting reforms, in reference to this change in pensions, which do not appear in the coalition agreement.

The minister has denied this accusation and has said that it is "scrupulously" carried out.

The pact is being fulfilled and promoting the recommendations of the Toledo Pact, he explained.

He has claimed not to understand why Álvarez, Pablo Iglesias' right hand, says this but has insisted on his reproaches from last week, which he launched in the interview with Carlos Alsina on Wednesday and which he later reproduced at the meeting of the four ministers and generated his clash with Diaz

Escrivá has reiterated, although without explicitly citing United We Can, that they are trying to "build a story" and maintain the "momentum", alluding to the criticism of the new calculation of pensions, which the minister limits only to a contribution to the debate, although it appeared in a draft of the Ministry and was brought to the Economic Affairs Committee.

"Someone was interested in creating a narrative, to give a feeling of confrontation," he said.

A confrontation that, in his opinion, "does not exist" and that "I do not know where it comes from."

He has thus avoided putting names and surnames although he was referring to his Executive partners.

It is a "mistake", he said, in something as important as pensions "to try to appropriate part of that story."

According to the person in charge of the Social Security, this stratagem "is not going to have route" and thus "it will be seen".

However, after the President of the Government has stopped this new calculation of retirement, the minister has defended today that it is pending "to make precise calculations that we have not done" because, depending "on the different types of workers, it will be necessary to look at and contemplate long periods ".

Despite all these tensions, the criticism that Escrivá lacks a political profile to deal with Podemos, the minister has indicated that he continues, that he feels "extraordinarily comfortable because we are doing things."

"I am here to do things for the citizens"

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