MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has assured that she is not "at all" concerned about the rise in the number of unemployed published this Thursday by the Ministry of Labor because "unemployment has risen much less than the average" of the same month of other years, since February is a month "of transition towards the model of positive seasonality".

The data published this Thursday by the Ministry of Labor reflect an increase in the number of unemployed by 2,618 people compared to the previous month, 0.09% more.

In this sense, in statements to Cadena SER collected by Europa Press, Díaz has defended that in previous years "the normal thing was an increase of around 30,000 or 35,000 more unemployed", although he has insisted that unemployment is " the main problem of the Government of Spain".

Thus, Minister Díaz has lamented the hardness of the unemployment data in Spain, but has put "in value" that after a pandemic, a drop in GDP of 11 points and a war, the unemployment rate stands at 12, 9%

"Any family that has an unemployed member, we are committed to it," Díaz has sentenced.

In addition, he has defended the social protection of the Government of Spain that, while "inflation is hitting Spanish families very hard, it is acting in all fields." "Today, the average public unemployment benefit is 74 euros more", exemplified the second vice president, who also highlighted the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage by 344 euros.