Eliminating this system is “not on the table”

The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has responded, during an interview on Cadena Ser, to controversial issues that touch her Portfolio. One of them is the renewal of the Muface system (General Mutuality of State Civil Officials), which covers one and a half million officials, and on which there is a disagreement between the Government and insurers dissatisfied with the new conditions that the Government offers them to renew the agreement.

The head of Health has been cautious since they are in a “dialogue process”, and added that Muface “is not a priority.”

“It is true that it is a subsystem within the system that is anachronistic and that gives conditions that are different from the rest of the citizens, which in my opinion are not better,” he said.

In any case, García has assured that “it is not on the table” to eliminate Muface: “It has never been on the table. Now, we have to study the efficiency of the system as a whole.”

Regarding the intention of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, to address a reform of sick leave, to provide more flexibility in some cases that allow people to return to work, she said that The word “flexible” is “quite squeaky” to him.

For García, the issue of “voluntariness is always open to interpretations that can be harmful” and he has insisted that medical sick leave is “medical acts.” In his opinion, “health comes first in any of the visions” they may have in relation to that issue.

It has defended a “gradual incorporation” in some cases and with the approval of medical professionals. “That possibility can be explored. Now, if what we are talking about is flexibility to unprotect the worker that affects coercion, pressure from companies… I believe that we will never agree on this,” he said. apostilled

Finally he commented on the attack on his car, which was vandalized with Nazi stickers stuck to the windows. For now, she has reported the case to the police and has admitted that she is “worried” and, above all, “sad” because she is not “made of stone”, although she has stressed that these acts are not going to intimidate her.

“This affects me as a person, because they have done it to me because I am a minister, I am a woman, I am progressive. In the end This should worry us all, because it is an attack on the Government and democracy. I believe that this political harassment and bullying is not casual, it is programmed and systematic and we have been seeing it for a long time,” he concluded.