Over 680,000 pensioners
- In Álava, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Navarre there are more than 680,000 pensioners and many of them “pay misery pensions, are below the poverty line and are mostly women”.
This has been denounced by the pensioners' associations of Hego Euskal Herria. The group representing 25% of this people is tired of seeing how they lose purchasing power. Thousands of pensioners live in extreme precariousness, including the situation of women and widows, who normally charge less than EUR 700.
In recent weeks this group, without too much political and union support, has begun to mobilise itself to denounce the tremendous, derisory and mediocre increase of 0.25% – between EUR 2 and 4 plus the mes-. This same week, on 22, a demonstration will be held in Bilbao, in which the pensioners’ platforms have already shown their support for it.
The person responsible for this situation is not only the Spanish executive of Rajoy, but also the Basque institutions – the governments of Gasteiz and Iruñea – which have 80,000 signatures on the table to claim a pension worthy of 1.080 euros, which the European Social Charter establishes for Hego Euskal Herria. But PNV, PSOE, UPN and pp voted against, and parties and unions looking elsewhere also have a responsibility.
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