The PP pronounces that it’s going to vote in opposition to the decree that features the revaluation of pensions | Economy | EUROtoday

The financial spokesperson of the PP, Juan Bravo, has simply introduced that the PP will vote in opposition to the omnibus decree that features the revaluation of pensions in 2026 within the plenary session of Congress this Tuesday. Thus, the social gathering retains its phrase: it has already introduced that it might reject the rise if the Government blended it with different initiatives, as has lastly occurred. Given this place of the Popular Party, the validation of the rise stays within the fingers of the investiture majority, once more with Junts as the important thing social gathering. The Catalan group doesn’t make clear its vote on this Tuesday’s session, however has registered its personal initiative and criticizes the Government, just like the PP, for carrying the rise built-in right into a bundle with different measures. It is a situation just like final yr, when validation initially declined.

“We are very clear about the Toledo Pact and pensions, which bears the signature of the Popular Party,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo defended himself, in an interview on Cadena Cope. “If he wants the revaluation of pensions, he should sign a clean decree tomorrow only with the revaluation of pensions, if he wants other issues, he should not count on the Popular Party,” the PP chief had already identified early within the morning, paving the way in which for his refusal. “The Government is using pensioners when it does not have stability or a majority in Parliament,” said the pinnacle of the opposition.

Four hours after Feijóo slipped his vote in opposition to, the PP confirmed it at a press convention after the steering committee assembly. “Our vote, obviously, will be a no,” stated the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Juan Bravo. “We do not agree. Every time you have brought a decree under these conditions, you know what our position is, and if you want pensioners’ pensions to be raised, updated according to the CPI, allow this to be processed and the problem will be solved,” continued the favored deputy, pointing to the legislative initiative offered by his social gathering on November 14, “which automates the revaluation of pensions.”

For its half, Junts doesn’t make clear what it is going to vote on this Tuesday, however has registered its personal initiative that anticipates a doable vote in opposition to the Government decree. The Catalan group has criticized, just like the PP, that the Executive mixes the rise in pensions with different insurance policies. “The PSOE puts at risk the majority in favor of increasing pensions by wanting to force the approval of measures that prevent the recovery of occupied apartments and that allow non-payments,” says Junts in a press launch distributed this Monday, titled “without blackmail, pensions first.”

The Catalan parliamentary group registered its personal invoice this Monday. “The initiative establishes a general revaluation of 2.7% of pensions [el mismo incremento que plantea el Gobierno]in accordance with the CPI, with retroactive effects from January 1, 2026, and guarantees the updating of all contributory and non-contributory pensions, as well as the main social benefits,” says Junts.

The Catalan group criticizes “the usual practice of the PSOE of conditioning the increase in pensions to other unrelated measures, such as the extension – for the sixth consecutive year – of the limitations on evictions due to occupation or non-payment of rent.” “The PSOE uses pensioners as political blackmail: either you accept the entire package, or you harm pensioners. And this is unacceptable,” stated the spokesperson for the parliamentary group, Miriam Nogueras.

That bundle that Nogueras talks about is what the Government classifies as a “social shield.” It is a sequence of measures which, past the rise in pensions, embody the prohibition of evictions with out a housing various for weak households, the limitation of cuts to primary provides (electrical energy, water and fuel), the extension of the social electrical energy bonus or help for these affected by the dana, amongst different insurance policies.

2.7% enhance

In January 2025, Feijóo already ordered the overturning of the omnibus decree that contained the revaluation of final yr’s pensions for a similar purpose: the Government had included different measures such because the switch of a mansion in Paris to the PNV. After the big political storm that this vote in opposition to prompted the Popular Party, the PP chief was compelled to rectify and approve the second decree offered by the Government, with comparable traits. Now, with that have in reminiscence and in the course of the electoral marketing campaign in Aragon, the favored ones take the identical path as then.

The normal enhance permitted for 2026 is 2.7%. This enhance responds to the typical of the interannual information of the Consumer Price Index for the 12 months previous to the final month of the yr. That is, from December 2024 to November 2025. This formulation was consolidated in a regulation that the Government permitted in 2021 and that applies from 2022, designed to ensure the buying energy of pensions. The will increase permitted for the advantages of essentially the most weak are larger: the minimal advantages with household obligations elevated by 11.4%, as did non-contributory advantages and the Minimum Living Income (IMV). Minimum pensions with out household obligations, 7%.

These will increase have already been mirrored within the January payrolls that pensioners have obtained. However, the quantities will return to the 2025 stage if the Government fails to validate the rise or approve one other decree by the point the following cost arrives. This newspaper has requested the Ministry of Social Security, which is accountable for pensions, for a response, however for the second it prefers to not remark.

The Government permitted the rise in pensions for 2026 within the final Council of Ministers in 2025 as a royal decree regulation, which requires validation by Parliament inside a month in order to not decline. This Tuesday, this validation might be voted on, which the PP is not going to assist and which Junts calls into query. The in style ones did just lately vote in favor of one other measure that the Government delivered to Parliament, the wage enhance for civil servants. On that event, the Executive didn’t combine the decree with different insurance policies.