The Basque trade union majority joins the mobilisation of pensioners to demand the processing of the People's Legislative Initiative
ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde will also mobilize on 20 September to demand that PNV and PSE-EE "rectify" their position and process an initiative to equate the minimum pension with the minimum wage.
Pensioners' mobilization. Photo: EFE
The unions ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde have called to mobilize on the 20th with the Euskal Herria Pensioners' Movement to "rectify" their position and demand that the PNV and PSE-EE "rectify" their position and process the Popular Legislative Initiative.
The Basque Government has already expressed its opposition to this initiative because, although it obtained the support of more than 145,000 signatures , "it is unnecessary and contrary to the coherence of the current Basque System of Income Guarantee and Social Inclusion".
With this position, the Basque Parliament will certainly reject the consideration and processing of the initiative, since the groups supporting theGovernment, the PNV and the PSE-EE, have a sufficient majority in Parliament to reject the measure.
In protest, the Euskal Herria Pensioners' Movement has called demonstrations in Donostia-San Sebastián, Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz on the 20th and a mobilization in Vitoria-Gasteiz on the 25th.
The secretaries-general of ELAand LAB, Mitxel Lakuntza and Garbiñe Aranburu, together with representatives of ESK, Steilas, Etxalde and Hiru, have supported the mobilizations on Monday, considering the attitude of the government to be "unfair", and have urged PNV and PSE-EE to "rectify" their position.
Lakuntza has stated that the Basque Government's report on the People's Legislative Initiative 'is not legal', but 'political', and has accused the Executive of making it clear that 'it is not on its agenda' to resolve the situation of pensioners with the worst economic conditions, using arguments which are 'excuses' for this.
According to the data they have provided, there are currently 90,000 pensionersin the CAE , the majority of whom are women (70%), and their income is below the minimum wage. Of these, some 15,000 receive a pension supplement through the Income Guarantee Income (RGI), so "83% are excluded from the protection of the Basque Government", Lakuntza has denounced.
In the same vein, Garbiñe Aranburu has described it as 'very serious' to deny the debate on this issue in the Basque Parliament and has warned that they will not take the initiative for granted 'other than to discuss it'.
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