After a week of political impulses, the government finally accepted the obvious. Separate heterogeneous drugs that have no relationship with each other: immediate closure of pensions and protection of occupations and concernsdestroyed this last “social shield”.
The Council of Ministers approved two separate decrees this Tuesday in the context of the summary text that was published on January 27.
The sudden pensions will now go on their own without ending the moratorium against desahucios, which destroyed the legitimate concerns of the PP and the Junts. It is a victory for legislative coherence, albeit late in a week of uncertainty for Spain’s new thousands of pensioners.
During other days, Pedro Sánchez maintained a strategy that can without exaggeration be classified as “democratic rights”. The government has conditioned the revaluation of pensions (a measure of social protection in which practically all parliamentary groups converge) on the simultaneous approval of other, much more controversial initiatives.
Linking the update of pensions (2.7% across the board, at least up to 11.4%) with the anti-pension moratorium was in no way a technical or legislative necessity.
It was simply a political presence that forced one to either vote him or vote him all, en bloc. Pensioners and occupation iban de la mano, how jubilados and delinquents were subjected to the same social protection by the governmentalong the coast of the rest of Spain.
The numbers highlight it. The omnibus decree took care of the necessary provisions. The PP demanded a “clean” decree that would include only pensions.
Junts again refused to vote together for both parties, classifying the executive’s strategy as a “political chant”.
Including their minority members of the Moncloa government, they recognized that the operation was not viable.
Before this insurmountable parliamentary reality, the executive claimed for days that it could not separate things that were considered “two expensive equal money”. An affirmation as false as it is fruitless.
It follows from the resolution of the decree that the government knew from the beginning that pensions could be separated. Sánchez wanted him to instrumentalize them. Reassess your pension annually in exchange for forcing passage of the death moratorium, a remedy that affects smallholders and raises more reasonable doubts about the legal security of private property.
This practice of omnibus decrees, which combine topics with no apparent connection, means a violation of democratic quality. It obliges MPs to make individual decisions about specific policies and puts them in the decision to vote for a package of heterogeneous media.
PP was right in his criticism. It is not acceptable to use pensioners as political bargaining chips. It is one thing for the government to define its legislative priorities. Another very different thing is the use of proxy mayors to get votes for initiatives that do not have parliamentary support.
At the height of cynicism, Pedro Sánchez tried to blame the PP for what the same man did: foreclose on pensioners to get approval for a remedy that eliminates property rights in Spain.
“More often than not, the People’s Party asks the pensioners of our country to vote against the interests of more than ten thousand pensioners,” Sánchez said. “Think of your child, your child, like your mother, your father, who can lose more than 500 euros a year,” he said later.
Now that the government has backed down, ask the question. Why don’t you leave the beginning?
The answer is probably the greatest twenty-day political tactic. Pedro Sánchez, Yolanda Diaz and their ministers believed that the legislative deadlock would be resolved by political pressure. That others would give up.
But the reality is that you have no incentive to do so. Retirees who demand respect and absolute clarity in their areas should not be subject to any such negotiation.
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