Madrid Joins Weekend of Protests Across Europe
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A protest in Madrid with thousands of pensioners from all over Spain has demanded the revaluation of pensions to the real CPI and has defended the public system against the privatizing interests of investment funds, which also do business with housing, as they have denounced
The leader of the right-wing opposition, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, assured that his party would re-establish pensions in accordance with the law, if it won the elections. He replied to the socialist government, which accuses him of wanting to open the way for partial privatisation of the system.
The march is held every year in October, but this time the influx, according to the organizers, has grown because of the prominence of these services in the electoral campaign
The protest in Madrid coincides with a day of demonstrations in other European countries.
Thousands of protesters flooded the center of Madrid at noon local time today to defend the public nature of pensions, a month before parliamentary elections, at a time when the left accuses the right of wanting to pave the way for a partial privatization of the system. The participants in the march crossed, in a peaceful atmosphere, ... More www.ertnews.gr
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