“We are vote to vote.” The phrase of a minister summarizes the spirit with which the government faces a critical moment of the legislature. The Socialists try these weeks of surviving the outbreak of the Santos Cerdán case while getting small victories in Congress to win some air. A few days ago, a new decree for young people to travel with public transport discounts at the end of June already a law to prohibit Francoist associations.
The great promises of the campaign of both the PSOE and Sumar are still stuck: the reform of the Gag Law, the Family Law or the reduction of the day await a difficult agreement between the investiture partners to be able to become a reality. This legislature is scarce on Thursdays parliamentarians, the days of full in which the laws are often approved, and the outbreak of the case of corruption with Santos Cerdán in the center has reduced the relations of the partners with the government.
In this increasingly complicated context, the Executive has managed, however, approve some laws and, above all, to advance in a series of important rules for its objectives. Two weeks ago the decree with discounts on public transport trips for young people of up to 30 years. Congress has also begun to process a PSOE law to criminally punish sexual conversion therapies.
There are two representative examples of the norms that the government tries to carry out, with issues that challenge the heterodox block of investiture and expansive economic measures that leave little room for the refusal of the partners. In both cases, even the Popular Party ended up refraining. These weeks the Executive also brought the decree with measures to alleviate the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on the business fabric.
“The reality says that even after the UCO report we have won essential votes in Congress. We won 90% of the voting, although a lot Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, at the breakfasts of the Madrid Athenaeum.
The Government has also managed to approve a modification of the Air Navigation Law to impose sanctions on airlines that do not comply with European regulations on biofuels.
At the end of June, the PSOE gathered the support of the partners to definitively approve the law that seeks to cage the Francoist associations, one of the mandates incorporated by the Democratic Memory Law approved by Congress the last legislature. The norm is a formula to complement the extinction of the foundations such as Francisco Franco, which follows another way initiated by the Ministry of Culture in June last year. The idea is that the Franco Foundation cannot be converted into an association when it is illegalized.
And in commission, without the need to go through the Plenary, the Ministry of Health achieved the support to approve, to the second, the public health agency, although it did it without the votes of PP and Juns. The Catalan independentistas already knocked down a few months ago that same initiative and their support remains necessary for when the text returns from the Senate.
Advances in processing
Both the government and the parties that compose it are working at different levels in commission. In June, the first parliamentary procedure that promotes the Felix Bolaños Ministry of Justice to reform the judicial career exceeded. And another law of the PSOE to regulate the inclusion of mutualists in the Social Security regime.
It is being easier for parties during this legislature to begin processing law propositions. Many of them end up in a parliamentary limbo of months. In addition to the law against conversion therapies, in recent weeks the Congress has begun to process a reform of the regulation to regulate lobbies and another law of the PSOE to modify the functioning of the university system.
Also in commission follow the attempts to try to unlock the reform of the Gag Law, one of the main promises of the entire investiture block for several years. Last day 1 that law turned 10 years in force and this week some of the parties that negotiate the reform met in Congress to put in order registered amendments and resume contact after the shy meetings of recent months. But for now the agreement seems distant.
Much more advanced is the Sustainable Mobility Law, one of the objectives that the Government drags from the last legislature and that is at the doors of traveling to the commission, scheduled for this week. The amendment work is very advanced, but the fear that we can if the text reaches the text has so far prevented more steps.
The reform of the Congress regulation to stop the extreme right agitators is at high speed. The PSOE has gathered sufficient firms to bring the debate of the totality amendments to an extraordinary plenary session on Tuesday, with the idea of passing the reform definitely in another extraordinary plenary session on the 22nd of this month. In order to do so, it needs the rubric of half of the deputies of the hemicycle, but the norm has the support of the majority of the investiture, which is likely to end up complying with the forecasts of the socialists.
Day reduction
In addition to the Congress Regulation, which could be definitively approved in that second plenary session, the Government wants to close the summer with an important political victory. But it is as important as it is difficult. The negotiation of the reduction of the day to 37.5 hours is struck at a predictable point: the reconciliation of the ambitions of the Yolanda Díaz Ministry with the demands of Junts Per Catalunya, which until now shows its total opposition to a text that believes that harms small and medium enterprises.
“It is completely harmful for SMEs,” Juns parliamentary sources moved last week after the meeting held by Díaz and Míriam Nogueras, the spokeswoman for the independentistas in Congress. It was a protocol meeting within the round that the second vice president is maintaining with all the groups, except with the PP, which has been denied, and Vox, outside the perimeter of the conversations with the government.
Díaz is willing to a risky play. He wants to take this month the vote of the amendments to the totality that PP, Vox and Junts have presented. If the three unite their votes to knock the text that day you will have to return to the Council of Ministers. Some members of the Executive’s socialist part believe that this first debate is precipitated without assured the votes of the independentists, although it is the second vice president that controls the times of this negotiation.
In work they continue to defend that the amendment to the totality registered by Juns is part of the negotiation and believe that forcing a first debate now makes sense not to delay the processing of such an important rule for the legislature, especially after the critical moment in which he has left the scandal of Santos Cerdán to the Government. What if together the first? In the ministry they refuse to talk about a defeat, they believe that those who will pay the political consequences will be those who lay a rule that benefits more than 12 million workers and remain importance to return to the exit box. “We will take it again,” they say.
Source: www.eldiario.es
