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The IU-Greens councilors in the municipality of Cieza defend at the next plenary ordinary November an initiative to repudiate the draft reform current pension system has prepared the Popular Party, considered project, "along with the attack consolidated front to healthcare systems and public education, one of the most important attacks to social and economic rights of Spanish citizens. "

Recall that last September the Council of Ministers approved a draft law which introduces a new regulatory mechanism for calculating the amount of pensions in Spain, leaving the concept of automatic adjustment to the CPI and uses a set of different indicators, linking the evolution of the amount of pensions in the overall economic situation and that of life expectancy.

According to the data handled by the formation ecosocialista, "reform, carried out in the way proposed, will mean a substantial reduction of pensions in terms of purchasing power we can encrypt, a rather conservative estimate, around 15 per 100 in the coming years. "

Given this measure, which from ciezanos ecosocialists is considered "a real steal our pensioners, although the People's Party wants to sell it as a saving to the public purse as a security and system stability", IU-Greens is clearly positioned against , so that "we want to move this discussion to the plenary of the Corporation for the public to know the arguments of one or the other around a field of such high social sensitivity".

According to Antonio Penalva, "the real purpose of this reform is not the one who has been proclaiming to the four winds by our rulers, but boot to the 70,000 pensioners million demanded by the troika as guarantee of payment of Spanish debt unaffordable ".

Therefore, "the reality is that once again the Popular Party government uses the crisis as an excuse to impose cuts in social rights, and does so with arguments and proposals cheats high opacity, by bringing the bill for the crisis on one of those most socially disadvantaged, the elderly and the pensioners, who have already beaten with great force other measures such as pharmaceutical copayment and cuts in health benefits. "

According to the councilman, "pensions in Spain are helping to cushion the effects of the economic crisis and unemployment in many families, as many pensioners grandparents have become the lifeline of their children and grandchildren who have stayed in the unemployed and without income, so that these measures will accentuate poverty and social exclusion found many families. "

Penalva also been critical to the trajectory of the PSOE in this matter, because "even now put the outcry remember that it was under socialist governments when the first steps, which sometimes are the most critical because they point the way, to dismantle the public social security system, serving the siren song of certain 'spokespersons' in the pay of the financial institutions that have always aspired to gain juicy business involving the pension privatization, that of Zapatero was the first government that touched pensions in Spain with the reform approved in 2011, while the Popular Party of Rajoy, who was outraged that reform aims to blow definitively one of the most progressive systems and supportive services available to the Spanish State ".

Source: IU-verdes Cieza