Brussels (EFE) the increase in these benefits according to the CPI.
Sánchez has launched this accusation against Feijóo in statements to journalists upon his arrival at the EU-Celac summit held in Brussels and after, in an interview, Feijóo assured that the PP has always raised pensions according to inflation.
A statement that has subsequently been qualified by pointing out that the PP governments raised pensions every year, but without linking that rise to inflation.
Sánchez has underlined before those words that the ten million pensioners in Spain and the rest of the citizens deserve to know the truth.
“The truth is that the Popular Party, when it governed, did not revalue pensions and that it has voted systematically in recent years against the revaluation of pensions according to the CPI,” he added.
To this he has added another “truth”: that when his government reached an agreement with the European Commission to shield this revaluation by law, Feijóo traveled to Brussels to meet with the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and with the commissioner of Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, and ask them to “boycott” it.
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“Pensions have been revalued. Today they are armored in accordance with a law that the Cortes Generales approved without the support of the PP or Vox and that is the truth, they are the data, the indisputable and what pensioners deserve to know ”, he stressed.
Sánchez has once again shown his optimism before the elections on Sunday and has insisted that, despite what the polls say, the PSOE is going to win and the PP is going to lose “because it has not stopped lying throughout the campaign” and because the alternative that it represents together with Vox is “a serious setback.”
That is why he has reiterated that citizens will not allow there to be setbacks in the revaluation of pensions, or in labor reform, or in laws such as euthanasia or education, or in everything that is being done in social policy.
Government sources have emphasized Sánchez’s criticism of Feijóo, assuring that PP executives raised pensions below the CPI, as they emphasize happened with Mariano Rajoy in Moncloa in 2012, 2013 and 2017.
In addition, they remember that the PP voted against establishing by law that pensions be revalued taking inflation into account. EFE