The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced at the weekend that the Council of Ministers will today approve the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) by 5% to 1.134 euro per month, in line with the agreement reached last January between the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy and the unions.
On a day in which the head of this department and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, also visited Galicia, Sánchez emphasised that this 5% increase, which represents 54 euro more per month, up to 1.134 gross euro per month in 14 payments, is new proof that Spain “It is going in the right direction with more employment, more rights and more coexistence than ever.”
To ratify this announcement, the socialist leader chose Ourense, where he participated in a political event with around 1.200 attendees – according to the organisation – in which he supported the socialist candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.
It is his first foray into Galician territory in the campaign, although he has visited the community several times in recent weeks. He arrived by AVE to the capital of As Burgas and returned, from the same Ourense station to Madrid also by train. Before leaving, he had a coffee with the PSdeG candidate to preside over the regional Executive.
In his speech, Sánchez took advantage of the announcement of the increase in the minimum wage to make a vindication of the “useful” policy and “temperance” of his Government in the face of the “noise, the din, the sterile cry and the debauchery” of the opposition.
At the same time, he has promised to do “great things” in what remains to exhaust the legislature, “1.260 days” which, he predicted, will be “very short” for the socialists but will be an “extraordinarily long” period for the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and his counterpart in Vox, Santiago Abascal, both also in Galicia this Saturday.
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