Retirees from different autonomous communities demonstrated in Madrid this Saturday. Requesting a reassessment of pensions in relation to the increase in the annual accumulated CPI and the minimum pension of 60% of the average salary.
in total 15,000 protesters, According to figures from the Government delegation in Madrid, they walked the streets of Madrid this afternoon, from Plaza de Neptuno to Callao, carrying banners with the following messages. “Fair pension, now” or “Retirement, my right”.
The spokesperson of the General Coordinator of Pensioners, Leopoldo Pelayo, criticized the pensioners. they “permanently” lose their purchasing power and find themselves in an “unsustainable” situationbecause they are subject to “continuous cuts” by the Government.
Among the different gathering platforms are retirees’ organizations.and Galicia, Andalusia, Extremadura, Basque Country and Madrid, as well as the State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (Coespe), Association for Early Retirement with Impunity (Asjubi40) and the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
While some communities such as retirees associations and Patrimony reduced taxes, Minimum and non-contributory pensions are “misery”.
in addition to requiring reassessment of pensions CPIThey demand auditing of their Social Security accounts and show that they “reject privatization of the public pension system.”
They also remember this Pensions lost 3% of purchasing power in 2021 and That wages and pensions are losing purchasing power by more than six percentage points over 2022.
“LThe main reason for the price increase is not wages or pensions: under the monopoly regime, they are the ones who set the prices in order to protect and increase their excessive profits”, condemns the organizers.
“We will remain on the streets until we reverse the counter-reforms imposed on us, eliminate the gender gap in wages and pensions, and abolish the penalty for long-contribution careers and early retirement.Restoring lost rights in successive work and pension reforms, creating an equitable distribution of wealth, and improving and guaranteeing universal and quality public and community services‘ they warn.
Support from United We Can and United Left
Members of parties such as United We Can or Izquierda Unida also participated in the demonstration to support the retirees. Javier Sánchez Serna, deputy of Unidas Podemos and spokesperson for Podemos, said that during these years they “fought very hard” for their demands to be reflected in both the BOE and the EU. Budgets.
Podemos state councilor Roberto SotomayorHe criticized Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, and José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the mayor of Madrid, advocating the opposite of a “public, guaranteed and quality pension plan”.
Likewise, Sole Ruiz, president of Red de Pensionistas de Izquierda Unida, focused on the “gender gap” of retirees: “We have to fight for it to be shortened and argue that many women work in black, have a dual function, work at home and outside.”