The animal welfare law, the ‘Darias’ law and the repeal of the gag law are other regulations with delays or tensions
MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
PSOE and United We Can maintain clashes and tensions, of greater or lesser intensity, in approximately half a dozen legislative projects that have not yet completed their processing in Congress, with the trans and housing law as the most paradigmatic cases.
Added to these two legislative initiatives are the animal welfare law and the health equity law, known as the ‘Darias law’, which have caused friction despite being approved at the time by the Council of Ministers, as well as the repeal of the law ‘gag’ and the mental health bill.
The most recent case of clash between the partners has been generated with the trans law after the extension of the term of amendments, agreed by PSOE and PP in the Congress Table, and which the minority partner criticized when suspecting that a delay in the approval of the standard, which is set for the end of the year.
This regulation has already caused several episodes of tension between the Equality portfolio, which is directed by Irene Montero, and the former first vice president Carmen Calvo, who were redirected within the Government with a consensus text that was approved by the Council of Ministers.
However, this delay in the term of amendments to a rule that entered Congress as an urgent procedure set off alarms in the confederal space before the possibility that the socialist group proposed far-reaching modifications, especially with regard to the point of gender self-determination.
A non-negotiable point for United We Can, which has demanded not to take a step back in the norm and approve it before 2023, aware that the legislative calendar in the last stretch of the legislature is more complicated.
Meanwhile, from the PSOE they rejected that they pursued delaying the norm, they argued that this law requires time for analysis and that it came at a complex moment, when the chamber is also processing the General Budgets for 2023.
And shortly after the socialists confirmed that they will not touch gender self-determination in the trans law, although they did recognize that they wanted to reinforce the legal certainty of the text by predicting that Vox will take it to the Constitutional. They also expressed doubts about the comparison of some types of violence to gender-based violence that occurs against women within a relationship with a partner or ex-partner (known as intra-gender violence).
Another entrenched project is the housing law that continues without progress in Congress after nine months of having the approval of the Council of Ministers, after a long and complex negotiation between the partners that also left episodes of divergence.
The purples presented amendments in Congress to extend the regulation of rental prices in stressed market areas to all owners (not just large homeowners), prohibit evictions of vulnerable families without housing alternatives and that Sareb flats go to the public park of the autonomous communities.
Its unblocking has been insistently demanded by United We Can, which even raised it as a condition to agree on the draft of the General Budgets, but they did not achieve that demand. And it is that they argue that without these improvements the regulations will not be able to attract the support of the main parliamentary allies, in reference to ERC and Bildu.
For its part, the socialist wing replies that the delay is the fault of its partner, who wants to reopen a debate that has already been closed within the Government by presenting a multitude of amendments. In this way, the PSOE closes the door to resume a negotiation between the coalition forces, but it does open the possibility of talking with the parliamentary allies if they use housing as a central issue to support public accounts.
Meanwhile, government sources expressed their confidence that the housing law will be approved before the end of the year, as the head of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, has already pointed out, and that despite the alleged blockade by Podemos, the groups continue negotiating.
Also the reform of the Citizen Security Law approved by the PP in 2015, known by its detractors as the ‘gag law’, is another element that has motivated reproaches, given that United We Can urge the repeal of its most controversial aspects and They criticize that the norm has been in force for a longer time since the PSOE governs.
The two formations presented joint amendments and some separately, but the working group with the parliamentary partners has not yet achieved a definitive unlocking. And it is that the allies of the PSOE reproach him for maintaining pitfalls, such as the elimination of the use of rubber balls as riot police material, among other issues.
This Saturday the deputy spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Enrique Santiago, highlighted that the processing of the repeal of the ‘gag law’ shows progress although there are still stumbling blocks, at the same time that he called for reaching an agreement before the end of the year.
The animal welfare law is another reason that has caused friction, despite being approved by the Council of Ministers. The Socialists advanced an amendment to exclude hunting dogs, rehalas and hunting auxiliaries from the text. Meanwhile, the purple formation directly demanded the withdrawal of said amendment.
On the other hand, the ‘Darias’ law also generated controversy since United We Can came to open the possibility of overthrowing it and not giving its support so that it overcomes the debate of the amendments to the entirety, arguing that it did not introduce real limits to privatization sanitary.
However, the situation was channeled when the PSOE and United We can explore amendments that introduce more restrictions on health outsourcing.
In turn, there is discomfort in the confederal group due to the freezing of the mental health law, which has lasted for more than a year and which aspires to improve public resources in this field.
Another regulatory aspect that United We Can demand in the Government is the urgent approval of the forest firefighters statute, which is still blocked, to guarantee better working conditions for the body.
