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The Game of Pensions

As if Spanish politics had gone into an endless loop, this year we attended the game with the revaluation of pensions between government and opposition in terms identical to those of twelve months ago. Aware of its parliamentary weakness, Pedro Sánchez puts in the same sack – in the same decree – the rise to pensioners, which has guaranteed a high degree of support, with other measures that arouse a strong controversy. It is the old tactic of th…

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Sanchez not only rules with waste and interventionism, but tries to survive parapeted behind the pensioners

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The parliamentary trilerism applied to politics has a high risk. Above all, when the game of hands is so evident that the movement is exposed. Now, the executive is forced to maneuver 'in extremis' to ensure the revaluation of pensions . Pensioners’ pay has never been in danger, even if it has been instrumentalized in a partisan way to campaign and try to weaken the PP’s position in the anteroom of the polls in Aragon. In Moncloa they were never…

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The groups of the left have raised the pressure this Monday to prevent the new decree—or decrees—that the Council of Ministers could approve on Tuesday, leaving out the measures of the social shield. Last week, the PP, Vox and Junts dropped the rule that included the revaluation of pensions and the prohibition of evictions for vulnerable people, among other initiatives. Both Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party and Carles Puigdemont’s party have positio…

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Carlos Cuesta and Beatriz García analyze the government's omnibus decree that includes pro-okupa measures.

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Sumar asks his partner for a single decree with pensions and social shield although he defends that the important thing is that all the measures are approved: "The important thing is what not the how"

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The Government is already working to present to the Council of Ministers this week a new decree allowing consensus in Congress for the raising of pensions. Congress’ arithmetical fragility has condemned the Government to a permanent exercise of funambulism. Without a clear and stable left-wing majority, each vote becomes a life-or-death negotiation. The decree extending the social shield—and incorporating the revalorization of pensions—is the mo…

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El Independiente broke the news in on Saturday, January 31, 2026.
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