Despite the fact that the legislature is dying, the Government wants to keep its social vital signs alive. Continue promoting the initiative to convey that the work continues, that the Council of Ministers continues to endorse measures designed for a social majority, as they say in the Executive. The approval in the second round of the preliminary draft of the family law is framed within this purpose. A milestone that, however, reveals the situation of tension and discomfort that exists within the coalition. Minister Ione Belarra had asked to appear to explain this law that is being promoted from her Ministry, but Moncloa has considered it more convenient for Nadia Calviño and José Luis Escrivá to leave. A decision that has caused discomfort in Podemos.
Faced with this situation, minutes before the usual press conference after the Council of Ministers took place in the presidential complex, Belarra has published a video on his social networks, explaining the regulations, which are now going through parliamentary processing in Congress. of the Deputies. “Spain has a conciliation emergency,” the minister pointed out. Among the main novelties that this law brings is the implementation of a new architecture with three permits, which puts care and time at the center and gives support to families.
Thus, a care leave of five days a year is established, paid, which can be used in the event of a serious accident or illness, hospitalization or surgical intervention without hospitalization that requires rest, both for a relative up to the second degree and for a cohabitant, something new so far; an eight-week parental leave, which can be enjoyed continuously or discontinuously, full or part-time, until the minor turns eight years old, and a third new leave “due to force majeure”, which will be distributed by hours and may reach a total of up to four days a year. The latter will be paid and seeks to allow fathers and mothers to be absent from work when there are urgent and unforeseeable family reasons.
In Podemos they considered it important that the minister who has raised this Family Law to the Council of Ministers appeared before the media to explain it. For this reason, the Ministry of Social Rights transferred the request to the Secretary of State for Communication. From La Moncloa they have not considered it that way. Already on the eve of 8-M, the head of Equality, Irene Montero, did not appear either, in another event that drew attention, since three socialist ministers came out who monopolized the feminist agenda of the Executive.
In the presidential complex they cling to the argument that they have already used on other occasions: it is a law that passed through the Council of Ministers for the second time and that Belarra already appeared on the first occasion. Isabel Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Executive, has also appealed that in the norm “there are no substantive changes” with respect to the first version. And, above all, he has defended the presence of Calviño and Escrivá, and not of Belarra, as issues “of relevance and importance for the Government to decide that the priority is to address the socioeconomic issues that are part of the concerns of the Spanish, decisions as important as the extension of the Iberian exception to gas or the pension reform”.
The truth is that the Family Law does present some variation. The recommendations of the Council of State have been followed and the prohibition of the parental pin has been removed from the text. In the initial version, it was appealed that in terms of the rights of minors, it is prohibited for parents or guardians to prevent access to content on family diversity through the so-called parental PIN in educational centers. But this tool has been removed to accommodate the opinion of the Council of State. “They warned us of these issues that have to do with the area of competence of the communities.”
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