The deputy from Compromís affiliated with Sumar in Congress, Alberto Ibáñez, has shown his satisfaction with the approval in the Council of Ministers of the royal decree-law that expands protection for single-parent families, bringing them into line with the numerous families with fewer economic resources and with those in which a person who is a parent has a disability and has more than one child.
"I want to thank the effort and the work of the minister Bustinduy, who today has announced that the Council of Ministers approves a law to support single-parent families, very overwhelmingly headed by women," he said, at a press conference in the Congress of Deputies.
The parliamentarian has defended that this initiative constitutes a "fundamental" tool to combat the feminization of poverty and to stop its transmission from generation to generation. He has also stressed that in 2018 Compromís already promoted, in the Valencian Community, a decree supporting single-parent families.
At the same time, he regretted that the lack of a separate civil right then prevented them from "going further." "That is why today we are happy about this great law that will, for example, allow town councils to offer a reduction in the IBI for single-parent families, as they already had been offering for large families," he said.
In keeping with this position, he has called for a priority of the Valencian agenda in the next legislature to be the recovery of civil law, Valencian foral law, "in order to be able to begin to legislate another type of family."
"We have seen how insubordinate France is opening up debate to generate rights so that they can care for their friends and not only the biological family or the nuclear family," he said, at the same time as he called for opening up this debate and putting it "on the table."