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Government offensive to advance its social laws and corner the PP

2020-12-14T18:52:45.474Z


PSOE and Podemos will promote this week the laws of euthanasia, education, reform of the Judicial Power and the investigation of the 'Kitchen case' on corruption in the Interior


"Three more years of BOE".

This is how the two Government partners, PSOE and United We Can, see the future, once the main challenge of the difficult political course of 2020 has been overcome: to approve new General State Budgets that make forget those extended from 2018. After surfing their first year in power focused on combating covid-19, the Executive intends to resume and relaunch its reformist agenda with emblematic projects parked, "greener, feminist and social."

And corner the PP, engrossed in political and judicial investigations into its past corruption cases.

Three more years to promote from the Council of Ministers and bring to the Congress of Deputies laws and projects that define a "progressive, green, feminist and more social cohesion" roadmap.

The confession of this past week by Adriana Lastra, PSOE parliamentary spokesperson, is fully endorsed in this case by his counterpart from United We Can, Pablo Echenique, despite the evident and constant problems of fit and coordination observed in these 12 months of the first Government of coalition in Spain.

2020 has been a year of transit, of managing the greatest health crisis in history due to covid-19, of knowing, understanding and engaging among partners.

The Executive plans a counteroffensive in 2021 with its most emblematic reforms.

And at the same time, launch an investigation commission into the Kitchen case —the illegal espionage of the former PP treasurer, Luis Bárcenas, from the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of Rajoy— to corner the first opposition party.

The covid-19 virus has turned this difficult year upside down.

This has also been the case with the Executive's priorities in the face of the imposed “new reality”.

Since the beginning of the XIV legislature, 43 legislative initiatives, eight laws (one organic) have been approved and 34 royal decree laws have been validated, most of them related to the state of alarm that caused the pandemic and has marked everything.

On the substantive issues, however, only intentions have been pointed out.

In the tax area, the

Google

and

Tobin

rates have been approved

, but the review and harmonization of the entire tax system is still pending.

On the promise of the complete repeal of the PP labor reform, only the objective dismissal for lack of attendance at work has been eliminated for now.

And there is ideological discussion between various departments about its full scope, as is also happening with the intention of improving the minimum interprofessional wage by more than 0.9%.

In the social sphere, the green light was given to the minimum vital income for the most deprived people, but its management is proving complex.

In justice, the Council of Ministers approved the law that will change the investigation of criminal prosecutions, but the renewal of institutional positions and the Judiciary remains stalled due to the blockade of the PP.

Almost a year ago, in his inauguration speech as president, Pedro Sánchez addressed in 113 minutes, with 59 interruptions of applause and 14 of boos, an ambitious plan of changes for the country in all sectors that was drastically interrupted in a few weeks after the outbreak of the pandemic.

From the podium of the hemicycle, he began by proclaiming that with the arrival of the Executive of the PSOE and United We Can break "the blockade of the democratically elected progressive government", and ended up asking the other parties for some "patriotism so that the coexistence of the country is not resent ”.

He spoke of many laws and purposes that have not been carried out.

The objective is to resume that agenda now before the end of 2020. And to relaunch that reformist roadmap in Congress in the last parliamentary sessions to execute it during 2021.

This week the last ordinary and legislative plenary session of the year will be held in Congress, with a dense and complete agenda that will encompass all the relevant ongoing issues in different ways.

The idea is to culminate this period of sessions on December 29 with the final approval in a special plenary session of the first draft of the General State Budget of the coalition in power.

In just one week, the reform of the organic law on education (

Celaá law

) will

also be ratified

;

the final opinion of the Justice Commission on the euthanasia law will be taken into consideration (Spain will be the sixth country in the world to regulate the right to a dignified death in special cases);

and the law for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence, the climate change law and the law that will regulate the acting Judiciary will be addressed.

Last plenary session of the year

This Wednesday, the president will make his last appearance of the year before the plenary session to explain his efforts in three key European councils in Brussels and to make his first assessment of the latest declaration of the state of alarm over the pandemic, in this case in force until May 9.

The last control session will also take place, in which he will receive questions from a Canarian deputy about the immigrant crisis, from another from EH Bildu about the influence of the CEOE employer on his policies and another generic from the opposition leader, Pablo Casado .

Between December 22 and 29, the investigation commission of the Kitchen case will be constituted in Congress, which will investigate the irregular behavior of Interior officials of the Rajoy governments to spy on the ex-treasurer of the PP.

This commission will set the political agenda in the first months of 2021, while the trial of the PP for the

Bárcenas papers will

be held in the National Court

.

In her balance of the year, the socialist Adriana Lastra emphasized last week: “We have taken part of our commitments to the Official State Gazette.

We have three more years of legislature ahead of us to continue doing so.

To build a greener, cohesive, feminist country with greater social justice.

We know, we can and we must do it, and we are going to do it that way ”.

Echenique, from Unidos Podemos, took up the argument of the "consolidation and stability" achieved by the progressive majority in the Government, "in the face of the failed destabilizing strategy of the right".

But he pointed out pending tasks: labor reform, minimum wage, equality and a more plural Judicial Power.


Source: elparis

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