Government spokesperson and Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, insisted this Monday in an interview with Today for today in the sense that the legislative body is viable, despite the absence of approved budgets and pressure from partners, and that it is possible to govern and implement measures that do not need to be approved by Congress. “There are issues that do not need legal status. There are many things that can be done to improve people’s lives and that have regulatory status, these are measures that do not need to be validated by the Congress of Deputies,” said the spokesperson for the Executive on Cadena SER.
Saiz thus defended the request of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to ministers for “ambitious” and “disruptive” proposals that “connect with the people” which, despite good macroeconomic data, suffer from the increase in the cost of living and which are “easy” to put into practice, that is, they do not have to go through the examination of Congress due to the lack of support.
“It is important that we are aware of our composition and what it looks like. I am going to be a little legal, but there are questions that do not need the status of law”, indicated the minister’s spokesperson on Cadena SER: “There are many things that can be done to improve people’s lives and which have, for example, regulatory status, these are measures that do not need to be validated by Congress. That does not make them bad measures. On the contrary, many things can be done without the need for legislative status,” stressed.
“There are many things to do without needing this legal status, while scrupulously respecting the pyramid, the normative pyramid of our rule of law,” Saiz insisted before adding that “it’s governing.” The minister’s new spokesperson assured that “asking responsibility from the autonomous communities is not throwing away the ball, it is not not wanting to assume responsibilities”, and gave the example of housing policy: “The Spanish government is doing a lot, it is doing things that have not been done, it is even raising its voice in Europe, but the autonomous communities have a lot to say in matters of housing. When I demand this responsibility, it is not that I am not assuming mine, is that I am very aware of the State that we are, of the autonomy, of the skills, and that is why I think it is very important to be aware that there are many measures that do not need legal status “And that does not mean anything, but simply governing with a very clear road map, trying to improve the lives of people at all levels,” he detailed.
The minister considers that citizens are “aware” of the measures taken by the Executive with expanded budgets which she describes as “positive”: “There are budgets which have cuts in rights and there are budgets which are extended and which allow us measures as important as those of last Tuesday to revalue pensions, extend the social shield. Not every type of budgetary project is the same.” At the same time, Elma Saiz says that in La Moncloa they are aware that it is essential to present a new draft General State Budget, scheduled for the first quarter of 2026: “We have a commitment and we are going to present a new good budgetary project. know where we are.
“We have achieved many goals, but we have not yet reached where we want to be as a country. There are still many challenges to overcome,” admitted the minister before adding that Parliament will move forward if this budget project does not pass Congressional review. Elma Saiz insisted on the idea that the legislative branch is viable despite a government without public accounts and under pressure from partners inside and outside the executive.
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