The frenetic activity displayed by the Andalusian Parliament over the coming weeks has reached its peak during last Wednesday’s session, a marathon day during which five laws were processed in a single day.
Among them, two were approved. It is about … of two important regulations, that of Housing, which makes Andalusia the first autonomous community to legislate after State regulations and which will involve, among other things, making more land available to municipalities and increasing the supply of protected housing.
And the new Law of Productive Spaces for the Promotion of Industry in Andalusia, known as the Law of Industrial Zones, was also approved. A rule which, defended by the Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines, Jorge Paradela, declared that this law “This will contribute to the growth of the industry in our country” and thus Andalusia “will become a reference at the national level”.
Additionally, during this same debate, in a single day, three other laws were adopted in their entirety. In this case it is the law on cultural heritage, another considered fundamental for Andalusia since it aims to guarantee the stewardship, protection, conservation, enrichment, research, dissemination and transmission to future generations of cultural assets and also integrates paleontological assets.
Two others were added, Environmental Management and Forestry Law, which also passed their first parliamentary procedure.
This legislative push is being driven because many of these regulations They are treated urgently so that they have time to be approved before the end of the legislature.
Emergency processing is used because pending laws that are not approved expire at the end of the legislature.
It must be taken into account that there is only one plenary session left, that of budgets, and that the session period ends at the end of December, which means that there will be no more opportunities until next February. Meanwhile, other laws already in progress, such as those on Universities or Sciences, will continue to be processed. The urgency is due to the fact that the regulations which have not been definitively approved and are in progress decline at the end of the session.
It is an activity that the President of the Council himself, Juanma Moreno, welcomed last week during the parliamentary control session, because it also contrasts with the ineffectiveness of the Government of Pedro Sánchez that he cannot pass a single law and that he has not even been able to approve the general state budgets, already extended for three years.
This intense legislative activity does not seem to be to the taste of the opposition, which denounced it in plenary last week. Socialists like the radical left have spoken of approving laws “by weight” or “like churros” to attack the government of Juanma Moreno.
In any case, if, as the Andalusian President announced, there are still seven months before the regional elections, the activity that will take place in the regional chamber in the coming months and plenary sessions will be frenetic.
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