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The system "is not prepared" for minimum pensions, but for your salary...

  • Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, believes that the system "is not ready" for minimum pensions of EUR 1,080 for next year. But yes, apparently, for salaries like yours. Do they all know what it is to live on a minimum wage of EUR 950, on an IGR of 650 or on a pension of 650?
Ezker-eskuin: Felipe Borboi Espainiako erregea, Antonio Garamendi CEOEko presidentea eta Iñigo Urkullu EAEko lehendakaria

18 March 2021 - 15:16
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Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, earns €105,825 per year. But it considers that “the system is not ready” for minimum pensions of EUR 1,080. She will agree with the Basque Government Minister for Social Affairs, Beatriz Artolazabal, who earns EUR 94,335 a year, “EUR 600 a month guarantee a dignified life”, and with the Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructure, Arantza Tapia, who also earns EUR 94,335 a year, when she said that in order to avoid redundancies “we need to negotiate temporary wage cuts”.

In fact, the system appears to be prepared for the following salaries: King Philip VI, 253,850 euros/year; the couple of Letizia, 139,610 euros; and mother Sofia, 114,240 euros. His father, after abdication, has received EUR 200,000 per year. The President of the Spanish Government earns EUR 85,608 a year; the ministers, EUR 75,531; the President of Parliament, EUR 230,930; and the Members, EUR 55,880. The President of the Spanish Constitutional Court, 157,576 euros; the Supreme Court, 142,210; the Spanish employer CEOE, 300,000…

In Hego Euskal Herria it also seems that the system is prepared for this type of salary. In addition to the salaries of Urkullu and his advisors, there are many others: The President of Navarra, EUR 75,262 per year; her councillors EUR 70,040. The mayor of Bilbao receives 98,018 euros – and another 9,774 euros per triennium; the mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, 86,870 euros; the mayor of Donostia-San Sebastián, 87,952; the mayor of Pamplona, 65,338… The annual salary of the General Deputy of Álava is 97,970 euros; the mayor of Bizkaia, 101,92,000 euros; and the mayor of Barcelona.

Do they all know what it is to live on a minimum wage of EUR 950, on an IGR of 650 or on a pension of 650? They should spend at least one year on these miserable salaries to see what the situation is for thousands of citizens, because the system is not prepared to offer them a dignified life.


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