Basque pensioners demonstrate through the streets of Bilbao to demand a minimum pension of 1,080 euros in 14 payments
They consider that it is a basic income so that a pensioner can access a decent life in their old age
The Euskadi Pensioners Movement advocates not waiting for the year 2027, as proposed by the central Executive
Hundreds of basque pensioners They demonstrated this Saturday through the streets of Bilbao to reject the pension reform approved this week by the Government and complain and a minimum pay of 1,080 euros in 14 paymentswithout waiting for 2027, as proposed by the Spanish Executive.
The demonstration has been called by the Movement of Pensioners of the Basque Country as the final act of the fasting-enclosure of relays that members of said movement have carried out this week in a place on Fernández del Campo street, in the Biscayan capital, to demand the minimum pension of 1,080 euros.
More than five years claiming the 1,080 euros
The demonstrators, who came from the other Basque provinces, carrying their own banners and with handkerchiefs around their necks, have chanted slogans such as “1,080, if you can”, “Whoever governs, pensions defend themselves” or “terrorism is not making ends meet”. Of course, they have also remembered the lehendakari: “Urkullu, listen, pensioners in struggle.”
The Euskadi Pensioners Movement has been demanding a minimum pension of 1,080 euros in 14 payments for more than five years, considering that it is a basic income so that a pensioner can access a dignified life in their old age, and an effective measure to reduce the gender gap in pensions.
Jon Fano, one of the spokespersons for the movement, has pointed out, in statements to the media before the protest began, that the objective of both the fasting-enclosure and the march this Saturday is that the different public institutions “hangingonce and for all, the immediate application of a minimum pension of 1,080 euros”.
“With this mobilization, we also come to demonstrate that for the Pensioners Movement not only today’s pensions are important, but that just as or more important Are the pensions of the futureTherefore, to defend them, we have also requested the support of union and social organizations”.
The demonstration ended in front of the steps of the Bilbao City Hall, an emblematic place for the movement since it was where it was born five years ago.
At that location, their spokespersons read, in Basque and Spanish, a manifesto in which they stressed that “pensioners, after a lifetime of work, We’re seeing as reform after reform reduced our pensions.”
