The Popular Party of Lanzarote has lamented in a press release the "demagogic and opportunistic attitude" of the PSOE's general secretary on the island, who "once again has chosen to repeat the arguments imposed by Pedro Sánchez instead of defending the interests of citizens, and especially pensioners, with rigor and honesty".
The PP's vote against the so-called omnibus decree "does not, as the PSOE tries to make believe, represent a rejection of pension revaluation. On the contrary, the Popular Party clearly and unequivocally defends the updating of the purchasing power of pensions and has demonstrated this with actions, presenting a specific Bill to guarantee their automatic revaluation, which the PSOE itself keeps blocked in the Congress's Bureau".
"What the PP cannot support is the use of a measure as sensitive for almost ten million pensioners as a bargaining chip to sneak in, in a single decree, foreign, controversial, and unconsensual policies, aimed solely at sustaining a government without a parliamentary majority or General State Budgets," they argueIn this regard, they point out that "the complicity of the PSOE's general secretary in Lanzarote with these practices is especially worrying, accepting without question the abuses of a government that once again uses pensioners as a political shield. A submission that leads her to defend this type of decree for the second time with arguments that citizens fortunately no longer believe because the crooked maneuver is evident."
Sánchez's government "has clear and simple alternatives: process the PP's Bill or approve a royal decree exclusively for pensions. Not doing so demonstrates that the priority is not pensioners, but rather maintaining agreements with radical partners and moving forward 'whatever happens', even if it harms precisely those they claim to defend."
From the Popular Party of Lanzarote they have denounced "the lies, the manipulation, and the partisan use of an issue that should be outside of political confrontation. Enough with the "potage" decrees, legislative traps, and shifting responsibility to the opposition to hide the Government's weakness. When one speaks, the minimum requirement is to tell the truth and not insult the intelligence of citizens."
