Escrivá blames other members of the Government for creating a false account about the extension to 35 years of the calculation of pensions

However, the measure was in the preparatory documents and the drafts prior to the elaboration of the sheet on pensions that the Executive was designing in the European Recovery Plan for the pandemic that it has sent this week to Brussels, according to sources explained governments to elDiario.es. The Vice President for Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, acknowledged in a press conference that the debate on the extension of the calculation period was open in the Government and mentioned the possibility of allowing some years to be excluded by the workers.

"The calculation period is not by far the central element of what we are discussing. I cannot be jumping to a number of things, to these and many others. I will not be reactive about what I elaborate and build (.. .) I am not going to be in the game of having my agenda set from outside, "Escrivá pointed out, obviously angry at Alsina's insistence.

"We have to do many calculations and many more studies at the microdata level and that is what we are working on, that is the most difficult part to specify of everything there is and this is what is in the Toledo Pact, what we have counted and what that we have sent to Brussels. We are still making calculations to know how to respond to what the Toledo Pact has requested, "he stressed.

This Tuesday, to questions from this medium at the press conference after the Council of Ministers, María Jesús Montero had replied that the last draft sent to Brussels on the pension reform "does not have any type of alteration with respect to what currently exists" on the computation of pensions. In other words, the Executive has decided not to include the proposal to extend it to 35 years, as was being debated internally. With current legislation, that period will reach 25 years when the pension reform agreed in 2011 is fully implemented. In 2021, 24 years are taken as reference.

Asked if with his statements he was reproaching the media or members of the Government, the minister commented at first: "I do not have the elements to have a strong criterion and I do not feel in the capacity to express an opinion" . But in a second moment, Escrivá added that he was not "going to be in the game of setting the agenda from the outside" and that these controversies respond to "the creation of a narrative to give a feeling of confrontation."

In fact, the minister has responded that the same day that the second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, assured that the extension of the calculation period to 35 years would not reach Parliament, he gave an interview to 'El Periódico de Cataluña' in the one who denied the extension of the calculation period. In the interview, Escrivá does admit that there is a second package of measures in the pension reform, on which he still ensures that his team has to make calculations, in which the debate of extending the period for calculating the pension is framed. it would always be done in agreement with the social agents.

"It is not the reality that I live, in this and in other issues, such as the Minimum Vital Income. There is like a pattern. It is not the first time that we hear things that later are not sympathetic to what is later legislated. naive and I get a bit lost in all this, "said the minister.