The law to guarantee a public pension for alternative mutualists will have to wait another week. The call for the extraordinary Plenary session for next Tuesday, July 14, does not include the vote on the amendments approved by the Senate to this initiative.
This round of votes is the last parliamentary procedure before its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and its subsequent entry into force. The rule has already been approved, first by Congress and then by the Senate.
Now it returns to the Lower House, which must decide whether to endorse the changes introduced by the Upper House or return it to the previous wording. Congress has the final say in the definition of laws.
Approved with modifications this Thursday by the Senate, it was expected that the vote on its amendments would be included in the extraordinary Plenary session of Congress scheduled for five days later. In fact, in the plenary session, the opinion of a bill reforming disability and dependency legislation, which was approved in Committee on the same day, will be voted on.
On other occasions, Congress has even examined the Senate's changes in the same week, one or two days after they were voted on in the Upper House. The call for the extraordinary Plenary session corresponds to the presidency of Congress, at the request of the Government, the Permanent Deputation, or the absolute majority of the Chamber.
In any case, the delay does not have to mean more than a week, since Congress plans to hold another extraordinary plenary session nine days later, on Thursday, July 23. It will be the last before starting a break in parliamentary activity that, if all goes according to plan, will only be interrupted by the usual Permanent Deputation at the end of August.