The RTVE News Council has expressed its support for the journalists who last Monday, Silvia Intxaurrondo and Marc Sala, interviewed the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in ‘La Hora de la 1’, and that they have received criticism from the PP. In a statement, the TVE professionals expressed their “astonishment and rejection of wanting to criticize the practice of journalism”, as well as “to the attacks directed at them and that attempt against the independence and neutrality of RTVE“.
The controversy took place during an interview with the ‘popular’ leader on RTVE, when he assured, among other things, that the PP had never stopped “revaluing pensions according to the CPI”, a false fact that was questioned by Intxaurrondo. “The only party that froze pensions was the Spanish Socialist Workers Partywith Pedro Sánchez as deputy of the chamber,” Feijóo insisted, after which Intxaurrondo blurted out that the information he had given was wrong. “It is absolutely correct,” replied the PP leader, an assertion that the journalist denied by reminding him, with data , that “They did not do it in 2012, nor in 2013 nor in 2016“.
Far from rectifying, Feijóo asked his interviewer where he had “got this data”, and once again assured that the PP had always “revalued pensions according to the CPI”, adding on this occasion that “When the CPI is negative or zero, we would even raise it by a quarter of a point”.
What is the reality? That the Government of Mariano Rajoy approved in 2013 a pension reform in which stopped revaluing according to the CPI to link them to the financial situation of Social Security with a new rate of increase that was at least 0.25%. In this way, while Social Security was in deficit, pensions only increased that minimum of 0.25% annually. In addition, during some years, such as 2016 and 2017, inflation was higher than the rise of that quarter point, so pensions lost purchasing power.
This can be seen in the graph that accompanies these lines. Finally in 2018, already with the coalition of PSOE and Unidas Podemos at the controls of the Government, the Pact of Toledo in Congress (a commission whose purpose is to monitor the pension system and propose recommendations for the maintenance and improvement of the system ), with the support of the PP and with almost parliamentary unanimity, recommended eliminating that revaluation index to re-link it to the CPI.
→ How much has the CPI risen since 2012 and how has it affected the revaluation of pensions?
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