Hundreds of pensioners have gathered in Bilbao, crowning a week of mobilizations, to demand that the minimum pension be 1,080 euros, without waiting for the five years proposed by the Spanish government.
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Hundreds of Basque pensioners demonstrated in Bilbao this Saturday to reject the proposal pension reform approved by the government this week and already claim one minimum pension of 1,080 euroswithout waiting for 2027 as proposed by the Spanish government.
The demonstration has been called by the Movement of Pensioners by Hego Euskal Herria as the final act of the fasting fence to relays that members of said movement carried out this week in a Bilbao local to demand the minimum pension of 1,080 euros.
The demonstrators, coming from the three Basque regions and some of their municipalities with their own banners and scarves around their necks, chanted slogans like “1,080, If You Can”“Who rules, pensions defend themselves”, “terrorism is not getting by” or “Urkullu, listen, struggling pensioners.”
The march, which has led to traffic problems in the center of Bilbao, a uniform banner with the most important requirements of the Basque Pensioners Movement “Pension cuts, no. Minimum pension, 1080 euros”.
Demonstration in Bilbao in defense of decent pensions. Photo: EFE
More than 5 years claim
The Euskadi Pensioners Movement has been demanding a minimum pension of EUR 1,080 in 14 payments for more than five years, as it is a basic income so that a pensioner can lead a decent life in old age, and an effective measure to reduce the pension gap between men and women.
Jon Fano, one of the Movement’s spokespersons, stated in statements to the media ahead of the march that the goal of both the fasting lockdown of this Saturday’s demonstration is that the various public institutions “assume once and for all the immediate application of a minimum pension of 1,080 euros”.
“With this mobilization we also come to show that for the Pensioners movement not only today’s pensions are important, but just as or more important, are the pensions of the futureThat is why, in order to defend them, we have also asked for the support of trade unions and social organizations.”
The demonstration ended in front of the door stairs of the City Hall of Bilbaoan emblematic place for the movement since its birthplace five years ago, where its spokespersons read a manifesto in Basque and Spanish emphasizing that “pensioners, after a lifetime of work, see reform after reform in our pensions being cut.
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Source: EITB
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