Málaga (EFE).- The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced today that the Council of Ministers will approve next Tuesday the increase in the minimum interprofessional wage (SMI) up to 1,080 euros and has called for “coherence” and “responsibility” to the employer for its application.
“You cannot be demanding salary sacrifices from those below while there is a feast for those above,” Sánchez stressed in an act in Malaga together with the general secretary of the PSOE in Andalusia, Juan Espadas, and the socialist candidate for mayor of Malaga , Dani Pérez, which was attended by some 1,500 people, according to party data.
According to the head of the Executive, “in this country there can be no double yardstick, one for the majority of ordinary people and the other for the elitist minority” and he has warned that “here there will be no funnel law, too wide for the majority and too narrow for the minority.
Ask employers to sit with workers
Sánchez has denied that in Spain there is an oversized State and that citizens live beyond their means and has explained that what is happening in the last 15 years is the “erosion” of the middle and working class, since while prices They have risen in that period by 16-17%, wages have done so by 10%.
“In other words, purchasing power has been lost”, Sánchez stressed, who has reiterated his commitment four years ago to achieve “60% of the average salary as the interprofessional minimum wage”, which, he stressed, will be fulfilled in the next Council of Ministers.
And he has warned that “now what is needed is for employers to sit down with workers to raise wages.”
Sánchez has thus claimed, in the face of the neoliberalism of the PP and the decline of rights, socialist policies and their defense of rights, because, although it cost them “a lot” to unblock the Constitutional Court, with its first decision, on abortion, “Women win and the right loses.”
He has also highlighted that “Spain is the main economy in Europe that is growing the most and we have the highest employment rate in the last 15 years”, which is due, in his opinion, not only to the contribution of workers and employers, but also to the success of its economic policies.
Sánchez highlights public health against the PP “whoever can be cured”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended this Sunday public health, decent, quality, free and universal against the PP model that “whoever can be cured with their privatizations and cuts.”
Sánchez has stressed in a PSOE act in Malaga that health care is one of the greatest concerns of citizens and has reaffirmed the commitment of his government in defense of “one of the main pillars of the welfare state.”
He has alluded to the delivery of the Goya Awards this Saturday in Seville, which he attended, as did the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and has highlighted: «If culture is the soul of a nation, of course, From what we saw yesterday at the Goya gala, Spain is in very good health.
One of the things that most caught his attention about the gala, he added, is that the actors and other winners alluded to public health on various occasions.
After the “so hazardous and so complex” years of the pandemic, he has stressed that we must “not forget how important it is to have free, universal and quality public healthcare” and the “immense and eternal” gratitude to the professionals sanitary.
“And, for this reason, before the model of the Popular Party, which is the one that cures whoever can with its privatizations and cuts to public health, we, the Socialists, defend public health, dignified, of quality, free and universal” , he stressed…
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