The pensioners grouped in the Bizkaia Pensioners' Movement on Monday carried out their mobilisation in masks, respecting the spaces between people and respecting the other security measures. If it had been a normal Aste Nagusia, it would have departed from the Plaza Moyua and it would have mounted on the Arenal filled with txosnas but yesterday they ended up in the empty plaza, that is, collecting most of the people of these years: 5,000 people.

As in the demonstrations that have been repeated in recent years, in defence of the public system of decent pensions, it was shouted in Bilbao that half of the elderly have to spend a month with fewer than 1,080 people, many claiming much less than that amount. The representatives of the pensioners have asked the authorities in Madrid, Vitoria and Pamplona to ‘take urgent measures to overcome and resolve these problems, without waiting for the approval of the corresponding annual public budgets’.

The representative of the Bizkaia Pensioners' Platform, Jon Fano, spoke of the health crisis in nursing homes and denounced that, at the request of a meeting of the authorities to set out their concerns and proposals, neither the Basque Government nor the deputies have heeded them nor the representatives of the workers of the residences.

Prior to the mobilisation of Bilbao there had been a bit of controversy, as the Semi-Consensual Group of Bizkaia called for the demonstration to be postponed due to the pandemic. The Pensioners’ Platform, for its part, has kept its call and has managed to achieve a great deal of mobilisation in the end. The Comparsas de Bilbao also joined the call and were present at the demonstration a representation of them and in a distributed communiqué showed their solidarity: "The comparisons wanted to take part in this initiative in favour of decent pensions and public health and services, on a sad day that would be on Monday of Aste Nagusia, to show full support for pensioners and their demands."