Madrid (EFE).- Alberto Núñez Feijóo has admitted that in his interview with Televisión Española he committed an “inaccuracy” because he maintained that the PP had always raised pensions according to the CPI and yet “there were years in which they were not updated with the IPC” although his party “always, always” raised them and “never” “froze” them.
The PP candidate for the general elections has defended this Tuesday in an interview with Espejo Público that he neither lied nor did he lie, contrary to what Pedro Sánchez does in his opinion.
“I have accepted the inaccuracy immediately because I do not like lies to be installed in Spanish politics (…) and if I say something that is not correct it is not the result of a lie, but of inaccuracy, and I also rectify it because I think it’s good,” he argued.
Feijóo has thus admitted that the Government of Mariano Rajoy did not always update pensions with the CPI, but sometimes updated them below and other times, when inflation was negative, above, while recalling that the PSOE did freeze pensions.
In the future, the PP candidate will sit down with the social agents to seek to update pensions in accordance with the CPI and the sustainability of the system in the short, medium and long term. Feijóo recalled that an additional provision of the latest reform calls for a review of the financial situation every two years and contemplates “lowering” pensions or raising contributions if spending is out of balance.
Feijóo has admitted other “inaccuracies” in his face-to-face debate with Pedro Sánchez, such as his statement that the investigation into Pegasus had been shelved due to lack of collaboration from the Government of Spain, when the lack of collaboration was from Israel.
In this sense, Feijóo has said that in the order it is said that “the logical thing is that the Prosecutor’s Office and the Lawyers would have questioned Israel to provide more collaboration.” In his order, the judge assumes that from his court “little or nothing can be done” given the lack of collaboration from Israel and points out that “the only thing left is a possible diplomatic channel” “whose exercise corresponds to the Government.”
Feijóo has also pointed out that when he argued that Galicia is the autonomous community that had increased the debt the least “it can be discussed whether within that it is necessary to include foral or common regime communities” and he made “that difference, that specificity”.