The PSPV and Compromís MPs have submitted documents to the Board of Les Corts so that the economic discount equivalent to one day of work is applied to their payrolls for having backed this Wednesday’s general strike, 11 November.
The Compromís representatives have not attended the plenary session, as they had already advanced, while those from the PSPV left the session shortly after it began, amid reproaches to the PP and Vox for practicing “democratic assault” and for “seizing” the regional assembly chamber.
Compromís sources have explained to Europa Press that their MPs have registered a document in which they expressly renounce the pay corresponding to this Wednesday’s shift for joining the strike, as well as that minimum services be established to attend the parliamentary group.
In that document, the lawmakers ask that their wages for the shift be deducted from their payroll, and the group also communicates its renunciation of the minimum services set for this 11N, after the board of síndics rejected the coalition’s proposal to change the date of the plenary session to “facilitate workers’ right to strike” at Les Corts.
For their part, Socialist sources have pointed out that their MPs have submitted a document addressed to the Board so that it adopts “the appropriate measures for the economic discount equivalent to one working day to be applied to the remuneration of the MPs and women MPs of the Socialist Parliamentary Group who back the general strike, in accordance with the remuneration system applicable to members of the chamber”.
In this text, which Europa Press has had access to, the PSPV backs the call “in defense of the right to decent housing and fair living conditions” and expresses the intention of its representatives “to join this day of mobilization”.
The document emphasizes that the strike “also calls for measures to address the increase in the cost of living, the unblock of collective bargaining, the improvement of working conditions, the protection of health at work, and the strengthening of public services, with the aim of guaranteeing decent living conditions for all citizens”.
"In keeping with this decision, the undersigned members of parliament consider that their participation in the strike day has to entail the corresponding economic impact on their pay," the document concludes.
The general strike of 11N has conditioned this Wednesday's plenary session at Les Corts: the Compromís deputies have not attended the session to take part in the protest day, and those of the PSPV have left the hemicycle shortly after the start.
Tension has been building throughout the session, which opened with a minute of silence for the victims of the railway accident in Urda (Toledo). In the debate on the Consell decree regarding the damage caused by the dana, the PSPV spokesperson, José Muñoz, has called for backing the strike and has accused the PP and Vox of "taking advantage" of 11N to process the totality amendments presented by PSPV and Compromís to the Land Law.
In his intervention to defend another decree, the Councillor for Economy, Finance and Public Administration, José Antonio Rovira, has reproached Compromís for its absence and has argued that the image of the "empty seats" of the left shows that the coalition carries out the PSOE's "dirty work" with this general strike. Likewise, he has stated that he expected at least for the Compromís spokesperson, Joan Baldoví, "and company" to have asked for "the proportional deduction from their paychecks" for this day.