The law to simplify procedures in Andalusia provokes a fight in Parliament: “This is a cacicada, you can't work like this!”

The Andalusian Government has given seven days to the parliamentary groups to analyze and form a political opinion on the decree law of administrative simplification (the fourth promoted by the Executive of Juan Manuel Moreno), which suddenly changes a total of 176 regulations of community.

The music of the decree sounds good: put an end to the administrative tangle, cumbersome procedures, duplicities and slow processing, they say in San Telmo, the headquarters of the autonomous Executive.

The opposition complained this Wednesday that the volume of changes and the time allowed to analyze them does not allow them to do their job of analyzing the new rule.

The voluminous file of the decree law (a text of nearly 600 pages. And a file of 1,927 pages) was posted on the Transparency Portal this Tuesday.

And this Wednesday the Parliament's Board of Spokespersons has included it on the agenda for approval in the plenary session on February 21.

A little before this meeting, the Government notified the Chamber that it was correcting the wording of some articles after "errors were detected."

The opposition has begged, clamored and asked that the debate be postponed, since there is still time for its validation before the 30-day deadline runs out.

He has also demanded that it be processed as a bill, so that groups can present amendments for improvement or deletion.

The PP has said no to the two claims and that the text that has come from the table of the Government Council does not run any risk of not being approved as it is because the PP has an absolute majority in the Chamber.

The Andalusian Government approved on February 6 the decree law “by which administrative simplification and rationalization measures are adopted to improve the relations of citizens with the public administration of the Junta de Andalucía and the promotion of economic activity In Andalucia".

In other words: use 38 words to name the measure.

It has not yet come into force because it has not been published in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA), but the Junta has already launched an advertising campaign that it has called

Plan As

(“Andalusia simplifies”).

The Moreno Government uses acronyms a lot: there are laws called

List

and plans called

SOS

or

Air

.

The decree affects all productive sectors of the community and modifies 53 laws, 95 decrees and 28 orders in one fell swoop.

To sell the goodness of the initiative, the popular ones highlight two examples with which it is impossible not to disagree: the dependents, instead of waiting 555 hours on average for their requests to be resolved, will now wait a maximum of 180. And large families will not have You have to sign three papers to obtain the certificate, only one.

The groups do not even know where to start looking and suspect that behind the mountain of changes there is something that the Andalusian Government wants to sneak in without making much noise.

“You can't work like this!” the spokesperson for Por Andalucía (Sumar's regional brand), Inmaculada Nieto, cried this Wednesday.

“I appeal to the political wisdom and honesty of the PP.

There is only one way to process this: as a bill.

You cannot do this cacicada,” she said.

In the meeting with the spokespersons, Nieto asked the president of Parliament, Jesús Aguirre, to remove the decree from the agenda: “This is an attack on Parliament, we have no guarantees of doing our job well and having a well-founded vote on the 2,500 pages of the decree and the file.”

The socialists have also joined the request to stop the clock for at least a week and that it be processed as a bill "due to the huge number of regulations it affects" as well as the "relaxation of administrative authorizations in the environment", he has stated its spokesperson, Ángeles Férriz.

Even Vox, which has already anticipated its affirmative vote, has complained about the “little time frame” to address a “very complex” decree.

For Andalusia, he has warned that he will appeal to the Constitutional Court, although to do so he will have to gather support from other groups because Sumar does not have 50 deputies or 50 senators.

The PSOE is silent on the matter, because it does not challenge the Government's proposal in its entirety, which anticipates its possible abstention.

The PP spokesperson, Toni Martín, has not gone out of his way to explain his rejection of the opposition's requests: "The decree is going to be approved with or without Por Andalucía and the PSOE."

According to him, it is “a scandal that various groups have a different concept of the urgency of things than what citizens think.”

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