Mallorca: Saiz says Feijóo plans pension and pay cuts

Palma, Mallorca: Public pensions for more than ten million workers are at the centre of a row on Monday as minister Elma Saiz accuses opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo of planning pension and pay cuts. Saiz, Spain’s minister for inclusion, social security and migration, speaks before a meeting with hospitality representatives at the CCOO trade union. Feijóo, leader of the conservative People’s Party (PP), is also visiting Palma on Monday.

Pension row reaches housing

Saiz is responding to remarks in which Feijóo questioned the need to discuss pensions now. She says pensions rise under her Socialist Party (PSOE), while accusing the PP of favouring cuts, freezes and privatisation.

She also criticises the PP for not applying the national housing law in the Balearic Islands. Saiz says prices have fallen in places where the law has been applied.

Migration meeting due on Tuesday

Turning to the arrival of migrant boats in the Canary Islands, Saiz calls for calm. An interministerial immigration commission is due to meet on Tuesday with Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo and Alpidio Armas, president of El Hierro’s island council, attending.

Asked about Formentera, Saiz says the government takes migration pressures in every affected territory equally seriously. She also criticises regional governments she says reject the principle of solidarity, including towards the Balearic Islands.

Topics: Migration · Politics · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com