The President of the Congress, the socialist Francina Armengol, has set for November 18 a new session of the Standing Committee of the Congress, the only parliamentary body that remains in operation after the dissolution of the Cortes, in order to put to a vote up to seven emergency decrees approved by the Government in the past few weeks.
These emergency decrees, which the regulations reserve for cases of "justified urgency," enter into force upon publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE), but must be put to a vote in the Congress within a maximum period of 30 days to decide whether they are ratified or repealed.
As the Chamber has been dissolved due to the calling of elections, this oversight and validation function falls to the Standing Committee, the body that assumes the powers of the Plenary during these periods. This Thursday, two decrees related to housing policies were already put to a vote: one was ratified and the other was ultimately repealed.
Debate on Ceuta, the DANA, and the Urda accident
According to the agenda of the Standing Committee, reported by Europa Press, up to seven emergency decrees will be discussed at the next meeting. The first to be addressed will be those relating to urgent financial support measures for Ceuta following the large-scale entry of immigrants recorded at the end of July, as well as the response to the damage caused by the floods and other events that occurred between October 17 and 19, 2026.
The agenda also includes the two emergency decrees approved by the Council of Ministers after the railway tragedy in Urda (Toledo): one focused on aid to victims and the other with "urgent measures to strengthen operational safety in rail transport and the social protection of railway staff."
Processing of the social decrees of the pre-campaign
In addition, three social-purpose decrees promoted by the coalition Government in the weeks prior to the official start of the election campaign of November 29 will be put up for debate.
Specifically, these are the emergency decree to "expand the protective action of Social Security," another with "measures for the appropriate rollout of the reform of the System for Autonomy and Care for Dependency," and the most recent, approved this very Tuesday, for the "recognition and protection of single-parent families."