After the summer holidays, hundreds of pensioners have once again gathered in front of Bilbao’s town hall to demand a minimum pension of 1,080 euros. “Mobilization remains our guarantee to achieve our goals,” they defend.
He Euskal Herria Retirement Movement has resumed his usual condition concentrations in Bilbao and has warned that after the last general election “retirees’ problems have not gone away” and that the rise in the cost of living is “worsening” their living conditions.
If every Monday from January 15, 2018the group has concentrated before the city council in favor of ‘decent’ pensions.
After claiming a minimum pension of 1080 euros “as an immediate commitment from the next government” they have also called for “topping up the minimum income of pensioners to 1,080 euros in the next budgets”, both in the Basque Autonomous Community and in Navarre, and for the restoration of “the compensatory measures for December. payment for the loss of purchasing power of pensions”, among other demands.
After the July 23 general elections, the Pensioners’ Movement is calling on the following executive to include their proposals in the government’s program: “There have been elections, but the pensioners’ problems have not disappeared,” they stressed.
They have claimed that “the rise in the cost of living is drastically worsening living conditions” and makes it “increasingly difficult to access healthy food and medicines, decent housing conditions that ensure mobility and adequate temperature, and access to social and health services for dependents.”
They have recalled that “the inter-annual CPI is 5% and the 2023 underlying CPI is 6.2%” and they have wondered “how is it possible to maintain and improve our living conditions if the minimum pension is 743 euros and 167,718 pensioners, mostly women, pensioners in the Basque Autonomous Community and 51,306 in Navarre have an income of less than 1,080 euros”.
For all these reasons, they have proven it again they will continue to question the political classWe will immediately report our demands to the political groups in Congress. We will demand a position from the Parliaments of Navarre and the CAV regarding the supplementary report to 1080 that we have submitted. We know that mobilization remains our guarantee to achieve our objectives and we will do so,” they concluded.
Source: EITB
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