PSOE and PP this Thursday voted down, in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, the total amendment registered by Vox against the Bill on the reactivation of the professional career and on the retention and incentive measures for the statutary personnel of the regional Health Service.
During the defense of the amendment, Vox deputy Iván Sánchez has argued that healthcare professionals are demanding "the payment of a right" that is owed to them "for 14 years," requiring its "immediate and retroactive" restoration from 2012, with the corresponding budget allocation. He has called the reactivation a "Page factory scam" and has accused the regional government of bringing it back "on the heels of an election" after 11 years in power.
Among his arguments, he has pointed out that the text arrives without an economic report, something that, he has emphasized, is reflected in the Consultative Council’s opinion, and he has also cited an AIReF report that, as he said, warns that the 2027 accounts do not have sufficient funds. He has also criticized the processing through an urgent procedure, the absence of prior public consultation, and the fact that the project refers to a new career model that the Executive has 18 months to design.
Sánchez has proposed funding the measure by cutting what he has called "superfluous political spending," such as the 207 million of the Digital Transformation Agency or the resources allocated to the Council of Transparency and to the Audit Chamber.
PP: "PROFESSIONAL CAREER FOR EVERYONE"
The PP deputy Juan Antonio Moreno Moya has accused the regional president, Emiliano García-Page, of having "deceived professionals for more than 11 and a half years" and of having used the career "as an electoral weapon" since 2015, recalling that he voted "up to 64 times" against its restoration and has only launched it after the April 2026 agreement with the workers’ representatives, who, he has stated, "have made the president kneel."
Moreno has questioned the economic coverage of the regulation, since, according to a parliamentary response from the Government itself, the total cost would amount to 260 million euros and only 99 appear in the accounts. He has explained that his group has not filed a total amendment —and therefore has voted against that of Vox— because it intends to "preserve the recovery", although he has advanced that he will defend partial amendments so that all professionals are included "in all their levels and regardless of their employment relationship." In his speech, he also emphasized that the unions brought 20 pages of demands to the Executive on November 6.
PSOE: "AMENDMENT TO THE CUTS OF THE PP"
The Socialist spokesperson, Ángel Tomás Godoy, has explained that, starting from January 1, 2027, the bill lifts the suspension of the recognition of new levels, establishes extraordinary procedures to count the years of the suspension period in accordance with the 2026 agreement, and tasks the Council of Government with, within a period of 18 months, approving a new model that may incorporate a fifth level, in addition to contemplating measures for positions that are difficult to fill.
Godoy has recalled that the career, launched in 2006 and 2007, was paralyzed during the term of María Dolores de Cospedal. He has enumerated, along with this, other healthcare cuts from that period, such as the elimination of the 2012 extra pay, the closure of nighttime emergencies in the rural areas, or the reduction of staffing levels, arguing that the new law constitutes "a total amendment" to that type of policy. Regarding the procedure, he has specified that the preliminary bill was published on the Transparency Portal between July 24 and August 3 and that the text has been negotiated with workers’ representatives. He has reproached Vox that its own bill proposal set the entry into force for January 1 of the year following its approval.
SANZ: "THEY ARE AGAINST THERE BEING A CAREER"
The Health minister, Jesús Fernández Sanz, has said he feels "surprised by the trilerismo" of the opposition and has argued that what it really intends is "that there be no career and that everything continue so that they can keep criticizing," reproaching the PP and Vox that the career did not disappear by itself: "You took it away, the PP stole it from us."
The adviser has demanded that Iván Sánchez not "twists" the conclusions of the AIReF, which, as he has indicated, does not call the budgets into question, and he has assured that the Consultative body "has made no essential observation." He has also defended that the law is essential to lift the suspension and to "shield" the career as a retributive supplement, insisting that its effects will be recognized from January 1, 2027, and that the rule must be approved before the year is over.