MADRID, 28 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Rights and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, will not appear at the conference after the Council of Ministers to report on the approval of the Family Law in the second round, despite having requested it from the Secretary of State for Communication.
Given this, the leader has published a video on social networks in which she claims the regulations, which her department has promoted, which includes a paid leave of five days a year for the care of a relative or cohabitant and extends the benefits of large families to single parent with two children.
Sources from the minority sector of the Executive have explained to Europa Press that the Ministry requested that Belarra intervene to explain the final approval of the rule within the Executive, but Moncloa has finally declined to include her among those appearing.
Instead, the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, the head of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, and, as usual, the government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, will attend the media to report on the agreements.
A similar situation occurred when the Animal Welfare Law was approved in the second round in the Council of Ministers, since then the Minister of Social Rights did not appear either to report on a regulation promoted by her department.
Given this, Belarra has published a video on social networks to show his joy at the final approval of the legislative project within the Executive, which for example equates the rights of de facto couples to those of marriages. “We don’t want a country where LGTBI families have to listen to hate speech against them,” she said.
He has also explained as another of his virtues that the extension of social protection to families, the parenting income of 100 euros per month will be extended for a greater number of families with sons and daughters from 0 to 3 years of age. According to the department’s calculations, this measure will benefit some 250,000 new mothers in Spain.
“With this law we begin to correct a historical injustice also with single-parent families,” he defended.
Regarding the guarantee of the right to conciliation, the law creates three care leaves, the first of which is a paid leave for five days a year to care for a family member up to the second degree or cohabitant, that the workers or workers may use in case of accident or serious illness, hospitalization or surgical intervention without hospitalization that requires rest.
It also includes an eight-week parental leave, which can be enjoyed continuously or discontinuously, until the minor turns eight; and a four-day leave of absence to attend to a family member who requires immediate attention, which can be enjoyed for hours.
