Cortés Castilla and León did not ratify, and therefore annulled, the two legal decrees approved by the Council, containing “urgent measures” for the firefighting operation and against the dangers of forest fires. Votes … Contrary to the initiatives of all opposition groups (PSOE, Vox, UPL-Soria ¡Ya! and Mixto), it prevents them from entering into force as the Autonomous Administration has wanted since then. She only received votes for the 31 PP lawyers who were joined by the two unattached parliamentarians (formerly from the Vox Party).
Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, Luis Miguel Gonzalez JagoHe defended the first decrees related to the operation, justifying them by “the necessity of adopting a series of personal measures that enhance the safety of people and protect the natural heritage,” after a summer in which “reality forces us to recognize that the danger has changed and that the future involves finding new tools.”
In this way, with the new rule, according to González Gago, the goal is to “give stability to our operations, adapt our regional regulations to state regulations and provide ourselves with a new opportunity.” A general device capable of ensuring fire prevention and suppression“.
He particularly highlighted one of the measures, which is converting suspended employees into permanent employees throughout the year. For a total of 837 workers, changing working conditions would cost 12.6 million From the euro. The category of forest firefighters was also recognized, which represents a “specific complement” of 1,100 employees that will require two million euros. In short, it is about “taking a step forward in improving the operation’s working conditions,” according to the presidential advisor, who warned against this. ‘We can’t wait for the law’ He admitted that “the election campaign is just around the corner.”
Socialist lawyer Eugenio Miguel HernandezHe defended his group’s vote against ratification as “another patch that does not provide fair and equitable solutions” as well as being “imposed by decree” given that it was “opposed by all union representatives” with whom “no real dialogue took place”. Among other things, he denounced that according to the rule “60 percent of the current workers in the process will be relegated to the work group to be excluded due to their lack of required qualifications.”
The rest of the opposition groups agreed with these criticisms. Thus, from Fox, Ignatius of SicilyHe also stressed that the decree is not supported by any party, and most importantly, it “only exacerbates problems when there are other alternatives.”
From UPL-Syria now! His spokesman, Luis Mariano Santos, commented sarcastically on the fact that the presidential advisor “managed to turn all the groups and all the unions against him.” Moreover, he warned that “there are no new employees, neither in terms of materials nor of workers,” as well as that “they are trying to deceive us with a fixed, intermittent term all year round.” He concluded: “From a standpoint of responsibility, withdraw the decree.”
In the mixed group Francisco Igea He chided the Council that they were “unable to reach agreement” and denounced that they now considered the decree “urgent, precisely because elections are approaching; ‘that is your urgency, nothing else’.” Pablo Fernandez Podemos described the first decree as “a patch that has only an electoral interest,” while Pedro Pascual believes that By Avila “It was legislated without listening, the workforce is not standardized, job security is not provided, and stable employment is not guaranteed.”
As for the second decree, which was defended by the Minister of Environment, Juan Carlos Suarez Quiñonezwas also abolished by the Cortes. In this case, it sought to reduce bureaucracy and simplify procedures to adopt measures aimed, above all, at prevention, such as cleaning tasks or the creation of so-called “security rings” in municipalities.
The arguments for and against were similar. The Council defended the urgency of the rule and the improvement of fire prevention measures, a position also maintained by the lawyers of the popular group who joined the advisors and called for the responsibility of parliamentarians in approving the decrees.
The opposition groups’ refusal (PSOE, Vox, UPL-Soria ¡Ya! and Mixto) was also based on the lack of dialogue with the affected groups to agree on the rule and on their perception that nothing new was being offered to improve fire prevention.