- The pensioners of Hego Euskal Herria have also mobilized this Monday, January 20, as they have done every Monday since January 2018. The most massive concentration has been in Bilbao, where the spokesmen of the movement, in addition to denouncing the situation experienced by many pensioners, have reaffirmed the support of pensioners for the general strike on 30 January.
This Monday, the complaints and demands of pensioners have also been heard in many streets of Hego Euskal Herria:
Busturialdea pensioners have returned to the streets in defence of public and dignified pensions, explained their reasons and distributed leaflets on the Gernika-Lumo Market plazan.https:/t.co/crsu5YIaKq
— Busturialdeko Hitza (@BusturiaHitza) January 20, 2020
Today the pensioners of Baztan-Bidasoa have met in Bera. Filling the streets is more needed than ever #U30GrebaGeneral pic.twitter.com/VH4plP7HbU
— LAB Baztan-Bidasoa (@BidasoaLAB) January 20, 2020
As in the two years, on 20 January the Hegoalde retirees returned to the streets their demands, including raising the minimum pensions to EUR 1,080. At the same time, they have taken the opportunity to join the call for a general strike on 30 January.
They announce blackout and cacerolada on the eve of January 30 in all the villages of the Basque Country and for tomorrow January 21 11:00 mass press conference in front of the city of Bilbao to show the debt support of January 30 #U30GrebaGeneral #pentsioduinak (RC 3)
— Ecuador Etxea (@EcuadorEtxea) January 20, 2020
In Naiz Irratia, Jon Fano, a member of the Bizkaia pensioner’s platform, spoke harshly against lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu for his refusal to meet ELA and LAB on the grounds that the strike of 30 January is “political”: ‘It is foolish to say that the strike is political, all mobilizations have a political character’. He expressed his "indignation" at the 0.9% increase in pensions announced by the Spanish Government.