The reaffirmation of the coalition government’s commitment to “repeal” the 2012 labor reform of the PP has provoked the reaction of Pablo Casado. “Unless they continue to deceive and play with words is the worst news that could receive our labor market and, therefore, Spanish workers,” said the deputy secretary of the Sectorial party leadership, Elvira Rodriguez. “And Europe?” she wonders. A step further has gone Casado himself to argue that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “has signed something” with Brussels “that is hiding to all Spaniards” and that they will go “to the end” to reveal it.
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“We will go to the end to demand that the agreement signed by Pedro Sánchez with Europe is made public,” Casado said in statements to the media just after learning of the agreement signed after the meeting between Sánchez, Yolanda Díaz and Nadia Calviño. An idea that other leaders of the PP have also expressed in their social networks, despite the fact that the documents negotiated between the European Commission and the Executive in the framework of the talks for the European reconstruction funds are public and are posted on the website of the Moncloa Palace.
Of these, the so-called Component 23 is the one referring to the future labour market that the Government wants to establish and that the second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, has been negotiating for months with the social partners.
PP sources have assured elDiario.es that beyond the public agreements, Sanchez has signed “secretly” another agreement with Brussels “because if not, the numbers do not add up”. The PP refers to the fact that the reforms committed to receive the 140,000 million in European funds cannot include a repeal of the labor reform because, they argue, Brussels supports it. But the aforementioned Component 23 was well received by the European Commission, and it establishes the pillars on which Diaz wants to raise the new building of the Spanish labor market, which include reducing temporality, and precariousness, among other issues. <
The same PP sources say that in the agreements “must come the demands to unlock the cash funds”, that is, for Brussels to actually transfer the money to Spain. “There must come the structural reforms. And that we do not know,” they say in Casado’s party.
We demand that Sánchez make public the reform agreement signed with the EU. He must stop lying and put order in the Government’s cage of crickets.
The Spaniards are having a bad time, we must create employment by maintaining the labor reform that created 3 million and lowering taxes. pic.twitter.com/xHpZEpLCCD-
Pablo Casado Blanco (@pablocasado_) October 27, 2021
As has already happened with other policies of the coalition Government, the PP will try to be Brussels who prevents them from
being implemented.
“We will go all the way in the European institutions so that the labor reform is maintained,” Casado warned last week.
EH Bildu: “What is agreed, is fulfilled”
Another immediate reaction has been that of EH Bildu. The nationalist
left signed in May 2020 with the PSOE and United We can a parliamentary agreement that contemplated “repeal in full the labor reform of 2012 driven by the Popular Party”.
That agreement was later reformulated by the Government, although for EH Bildu the nuances were not very relevant and it was satisfied with them. In the final text of that agreement, after the nuance of the Executive, it was stated: “We will repeal the labor reform. We will recover the labour rights taken away by the 2012 labour reform. We will promote, within the framework of social dialogue, the protection of workers and we will recover the role of collective agreements”.
“Words and commitments are important in politics, but deeds are even more important. What is agreed, is fulfilled,” said Tuesday the parliamentary spokeswoman, Mertxe Aizpurua.
Words and commitments are important in politics, but the facts are even more important.
What is agreed, is fulfilled. https://t.co/opjVJ0bzK9-
Mertxe Aizpurua (@MertxeAizpurua) 2
November 2021
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