
The Government will approve on Tuesday the remuneration of the eight -week permits for birth care. The president, Pedro Sánchez, has announced it at a press conference since La Moncloa after a long negotiation between the PSOE and add to unlock the detail of the measure. In the decree that will leave the Council of Ministers tomorrow, the low paid and paternity losses are also expanded until 17 weeks and those of the single -parent families at 32 weeks.
“Citizens can now enjoy three more weeks of paid permits to take care of their children, who will add to the 16” that already exist, Sanchez announced in an appearance of closing of the political course, to take stock of the state of the legislature. He also added that the last two weeks “can be enjoyed until the boy or girl turns eight years old and can take advantage of them retroactively.”
Sánchez has announced this measure after a tense negotiation of several weeks with adding, which was pressed to approve this July. This same Monday, the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has advanced an agreement with the PSOE to carry out the decree but has criticized that its partner was resisted to approve it before the summer break. Finally, the permits package will leave the Council of Ministers tomorrow to be validated in September.
The final agreement has arrived after a weekend in which contacts have multiplied to close this measure. Add had as a priority objective to close the course with the announcement of one of the main measures of the government agreement signed with the PSOE at the beginning of the legislature. Although what was announced on Monday by Sánchez is still far from the signed in that role.
The textual of that pact established the extension of the paternity and maternity leave until 20 weeks 2024 ”.
The measure is reduced. The first permission, the usual paternity and maternity, extends one week, until 17. And the second will begin to remunerate but not four weeks as asked to add and was reflected in the agreement but two. 32 weeks of birth and care permits for single -parent families are also approved, 4 of them enjoyable until the son or daughter turns 8 years.
Add has celebrated the news as a triumph. “We said that to make sense of the legislature, the social agenda had to To protect working classes.
The Government will lead to Congress the budgets of 2026
The president has also taken advantage of the end -of -course balance appearance to send a political message: it has the goal of exhausting the legislature and a first step will be to present a project of general state budgets for 2026.
Sánchez has confirmed that the government will try to carry out those that would be the first public accounts in two years of legislature. Until now, the Executive has postponed the current budgets of 2023, the last of the previous government with PSOE and Unidas Podemos. In the present legislature, he has made several threats to take them but the political current and parliamentary arithimics have ended up imposing themselves.
In Moncloa they are aware of the difficulties in taking this project ahead, especially because of the demands of Junts and the opposition of Podemos, although today the president has shown his willingness to try. “I will try to persuade the groups,” said Sánchez asked about the media present in the wheel. And he has assured, asked about a possible meeting with the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, who to negotiate support for the budgets will meet “with all the leaders of all political parties,”
Although he also wanted to transfer the idea that if those accounts do not come out, the government can continue to function because it has on hand the European funds that Spain negotiated within the European Union during the pandemic and that still receives, as Sanchez has detailed.
“I have said it in some conversations that I have had with you, in addition to budgets we have a fantastic tool for the transformation that are European funds. They are other budgets, it is another lane that we incorporate into that commitment to growth, social cohesion,” he added.
“They have heard that we do not approve laws. The proof that these transformations are being implemented is that we are the country that has received the most funds. Just two weeks ago the fifth disbursement was approved. Spain will have received 55,000 million. 70% of transfers. An effortless effort that is behind the economic transformation of Spain,” the president had claimed a few minutes before.
Sánchez has also announced that he will bring the Decree again to try to prevent new blackouts, after the Congress last week. The president has specified that they are working to break the package and approve some of the measures through a royal decree that does not have to go through the lower house. The president has also launched a veiled criticism of Podemos, not to mention that political force, by criticizing the groups that knocked her out of using the ecological transition as “currency” with which “marketing prebendas and projecting non -existent ideological differences for citizens.” “Those who vote against these decrees do not vote against the government but of the interests of our country,” he said.
A legislature until 2027
Sanchez wanted to strengthen the idea that the Government will exhaust the legislature, despite the hard blows received in recent weeks, especially after the outbreak of the case of its former collaborator and former leader of the PSOE Santos Cerdán, wrapped in a case for alleged corruption, together with former Minister José Luis Ábalos and his advisor Koldo García.
“We cross the Ecuador of the Legislature, we are in the middle of the way, there is a lot of work to be done and a lot of legislature ahead. The two years that remain to the elections in 2027 The Government faces them with the same determination and energy as the previous seven years,” said Sánchez, who has taken advantage of the media questions to launch some darts to the PP.
“The legislatures last four years. The elections will be in 2027 and I advance that the PP, when they are celebrated the next day, will ask for an electoral advance. I do not know if Feijóo will be who asks for it but I tell you what is going to happen to them. The alternative is a Feijóo government with Abascal,” he said about the leaders of PP and Vox.
Sánchez has struggled to convey the idea that the only party that can articulate a majority is the Socialist Party. “There is not a majority in Congress or with an ideological orientation or with another. The true fact is that with the paromenar fragmentation of the Courts, the only party capable of articulating majorities in positive and not negative is my party,” he defended. “The opposition head can only agree with a party, which is Vox, and we already see what kind of agreements they arrive,” he defended.
Backup “without enthusiasm” to the EU agreement with Trump
Sanchez has not received the commercial agreement that have closed this weekend and the European Union. Asked about this matter, the president has indicated: “I value the effort of the European Commission. I value the constructive attitude of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von de Leyen. I support this commercial agreement but I do it without any enthusiasm.”
Sanchez has insisted that the way to follow is the one marked by the European Commission to “intensify commercial relations with other areas of the world, especially with Mercosur” and “follow the line diversify commercial relations, as announced by President von der Leyen in India or Indonesia”.
“Faced with catastrophism, data optimism”
Sánchez to dedicated a good part of his speech to extol the economic and also international situation of Spain. “If something inspires is trust and also optimism of national and international investors and entrepreneurs,” he said.
The executive leader has appeared on Monday since the Moncloa Palace in his annual statement to take stock of the end of the political course before the arrival of August. With the slogan “Fulfilling”, Sánchez has exalted the country’s economic situation: “In front of the catastrophism of the usual ashes, the optimism of the data. Spain advances strongly and in the best of the directions.” He stressed, for example, tourism forecasts on the visit of 100 million foreigners this summer: “100 million people cannot be wrong.”
Sánchez has highlighted the “Economy and Employment” data, using the latest data in which Spain, according to the Active Population Survey, has exceeded 22 million workers. “For the third consecutive year Spain will be the great European economy that grows the most in an extraordinarily complex context.” He has also highlighted foreign investment data and the weight of women in improving employment figures.
It has also referred to the rule on blackouts that did not pass the filter of the Congress of Deputies a few days ago, revealing that they will cut the regulations to try to make some measures approved as a royal decree, without having to go through the Courts, and not as a royal law.
Source: www.eldiario.es